. >> matisse's painting. >> this matisse painted in 1924 is the greatest matisse to come to market inars. >> estimate $70 million. >> and arguably the crown jewel of the collection. >> she looks pretty good. >> the 1905 painting, young girl with a flower basket. from picasso's rose period. >> the estimate on this picture is what? >> we are giving guidance of about $100 million. >> $100 million. >> the picasso which hung in the family's new york library had belonged to american writer gertrude stein. one of 47 works bought in 1968, by a syndicate that included david rockefeller, his brother, new york governor nelson rockefeller, and cbs founder, william paley. they chose lots out of a felt hat to get first pick. >> as luck would have it. david rockefeller got choice number one. >> the building you are in now, the time life building. >> yes. >> the auction which will be held in rockefeller center, was arranged by david rockefeller junior, after his father died last year at 101. >> what was it like growing up with all of that around you? >> it limited the amount of ball play in the house

the entire rockefeller art collection is sold off at auction — with record bids for works by matisse,onet and picasso. and coming up on bbc news... growing fears andy murray could miss wimbledon as his recovery from a hip operation suffers a setback, delaying the start of his grass—court season. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. european leaders are fighting to salvage the iran nuclear deal after president trump's controversial decision to pull out of it. the prime minister has said the agreement is an important way of keeping the world safe. but iran's supreme leader has threatened that his country will also pull out of the deal, unless it gets guarantees it can still trade with europe. the nuclear agreement, signed three years ago, lifted sanctions on iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear programme. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. in the diplomatic room of the white house, signature that president trump's ticks that was anything but diplomatic. formally ending us support for the international deal to curb iran's nuclear ambitions. in tehra

the w bids for matisse and monet went to asian buyers. it rolls on with t moren 1,000 other items the rest of this week. for "nightly business report," i'm robert frank. >> wouldn't you loveo know who the buyers were? >> oh, absolutely. >> most ofbe them want t anonymous on those phones, but just amazing this collectn all one place and now it's going to different parts of the world. >> i can't wait forrobert's reports for the rest of the week. favorite story of the year. >> yeah. >>> should we take another look at wall street? >> good idea. >> the dow advanced t 21,542. the nasdaq rose 73 and the s&p 500as 25. stay with us. we're going to follow that story. >>> that's "nightly business report" for tonight, i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. >> i'm bill griffeth. save someoney and bid tomorrow. we'll see you tomorrow. >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presentation is made possible bye eeman foundation, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, urd purepoint financial. >> how do we shapeo

matisse's odalisque with magnolias. >> this matisse painted in 1924 is the greatest matisse to come tomillion. and arguably the crown jewel of the collection -- >> she looks pretty good. >> the 1905 painting, young girl with a flower basket, from picasso's rose period. >> the estimate on this picture is what? >> we are giving guidance of about $100 million. >> $100 million? >> yes. >> the picasso, which hung in the family's new york library, had belonged to american writer gertrude stein. one of 47 works bought in 1968 by a syndicate that included david rockefeller, his brother new york governor nelson rockefeller, and cbs founder william paley. they chose lots out of a felt hat to get first pick. >> and as luck would have it, david rockefeller got choice number one. >> the building you're in now is the original time life building. >> yes. >> the auction, which will be held in rockefeller center, was arranged by david rockefeller jr., after his father died last year at 101. >> what was it like growing up with all of that around you? >> it limited the amount of ball play in the house. t

paintings by picasso, monet and matisse have fetched record prices at an auction in new york.being held over three days and, after the first day, $600 million—worth of art has already been sold. lizo mzimba reports. up front at $31 million... yours, it is. this turned out to be one of the evening's cheaper buys, believe it or not. gauguin‘s la vague, painted in brittany more than a century ago. last chance, at 71,500,000. yours, it is. a 1923 matisse portrait went for more than double that. an auction record for the french master. it used to hang in david rockefeller‘s home in new york state. hundreds of pieces from the late billionaire's collection are among items being sold by auction houses. it's going to be an extraordinary season. there's no question. we've seen a lot of great works of art in recent times on the auction market, but never anything quite like this. i think what we have seen, however, is, the market is very driven by quality and where you see works really of the first quality, then the demand exists to absorb an awful lot of them. the big question this seaso

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in these paper cut outs color finally prevailed over form this remained matisse's preoccupation until the end of his life. because of my tastes have that in spite of the scandal this allowed him to express his feelings openly and honestly for the first time after her column was a transmitter of emotion a means of sharing observance what he felt was the most thorough or galba. here there is nothing standing between the observer and the artwork. visitors are bathed in colors surrounded and illuminated by blue. for the troops are very immersive like being in a cloud or something and they don't come from me actually it's calling me it's very relaxing experience here. a pool of blue this is color in its most basic form for eve klein the adventure of color was a monochrome experience. i set about met to have a climb essence of a transition to the immaterial that there are no paintings on the walls any more just color pigments which lie on the floor and stay there through the force of gravity sort of also that it's a new way of thinking about painting or what your own thing is new avenues by

like matisse. it is a french carving, in a french underground city. it shows how these soldiers were trying to re-create a human world. a world of feeling and emotion and aesthetic. a world connecting them to a life before war which was important to them. it grounded them to help them get through. it is impossible for us to imagine. there were over 1 million high- powered shells fired every single day for four and a half years. it is beyond human comprehension. is a human was in the kill zone of these weapons, they would not just die. they would disappear. the term called pink mist. all left of a human being after these weapons struck. if they were in the perimeter of the bomb. this to me is what mass destruction means. it is something that goes beyond anything we can conceive. i feel like we are facing this risk again today. they walked blindly, both sides, into a meat grinder in front of their eyes. they could not see the danger. i feel like a responsibility and a sense of urgency as a emergency room doctor and explorer to bring this message to our

nada: this, the greatest matisse to come to market in years from sold for $80 million, and this monet guarded more than $84 million. -- brought in more than $84 million. >> something i never imagined what happened. nada: through theirame and fortune, david and peggy rockefeller amassed one of the greatest art elections, and filled their family homes with rare treasures the top was picasso's masterpiece "young girl a flower basket,"hi hung for decades in the family library. it fetched15million. other highlights include this early portrait of george washington and fur and precious porcelain, including an ice-cream bowl that belonged to napoleon. this high-profile sale attracted the biggest collectors and newcomers. sit shows the continuength of the art market but also been during power of the rockefeller name. tawfik, bbc -- nada news, new york. many people regard today's chaotic political , but ones not normal historian says actually, it is. a new has always been able to find its way back to unity even during the most partisan times in the country's history. colleague katty kay spo wit

it is very characteristic of the art of 100 years ago. , like matisse. it is a french carving in a french underground city. it shows how the soldiers were trying to re-create a human world, a world of feeling, emotion, aesthetic, and a world connected into a life before war that helped them get through a time that it's impossible for us to imagine. you know, during world war i there were over one million high-powered shells fired every single day for 4.5 years. it is beyond human comprehension. if a person was anywhere in the kill zone of one of these weapons, they wouldn't just die, they would disappear. it was a term called pink mist, which is all that was left of a human being after one of these weapons struck and they were in the perimeter of the bomb, and so this to me is what master structure means. it is just something that goes beyond anything we can conceive. and i fully feel like we are facing this risk today. they walked blindly, both sides, into a meat grinder that was right in front of their eyes. , and yet they could not see the danger. i f

target it to make it in one even process just for malaria the inventor spent four years developing the matisse system now the device is ready for clinical trials they say it delivers an accurate diagnosis within just two minutes. what's more it's entirely noninvasive no needles are needed. this is how matty babu works by an infrared light sensor inside a finger clamp it looks for red blood cells if the cells are infected with malaria their shape color and concentrations of different. data is transferred to the app and the smartphone which detects those changes the diagnosis then appears on the display. is much faster than the standard microscope method which takes at least fifteen minutes for one single test. for many years the world health organization reported steady gains in the fight against malaria but now the u.n. agency says progress the stalled in part because of a lack of funding. quick cheap and reusable tests such as marty baboo could make a significant difference. more than three million patient applications were filed in a single year in twenty sixteen that's a record humans have

to have on the same night records for two of the genius is painting, matisse and manet, is somethingould happen. rue their fame and fortune, they amassed one of the greatest art collections and filled their family homes with rare treasures. the top lot was picasso's masterpiece, young girl with a flower basket, which hung for decades in the family's new york library. it fits —— fetched $115 million. other highlights included this early portrait of george washington and furniture and an ice cream bowl that belong to napoleon. they arrange the show must rockefeller‘s father passed away last year. in an effort to continue the legacy of giving. the proceeds will go to charity. they are on the same side as chris is on this because we are both trying to create a huge success for the benefit of on all institutions. this high profile sale attracted the biggest collect theirs and newcomers. it showed the continued strength of the art market, but also the enduring power of the rockefeller name. do stay with us on the briefing. also on the programme: football fever sweeps russia. the street chi

also: paintings by picasso, monet and matisse fetch record prices at an auction in new york. sale of works from the private collection of the late banker david rockefeller and his wife peggy made over 600 million dollars on its first day. and madame tussauds completes its waxwork of royal bride—to—be meghan markle. she joins a re—styled figure of herfiance, prince harry, at the london attraction. welcome to bbc newsroom live. intense diplomatic efforts are beginning to try to save the iran nuclear deal — the day after president trump announced the united states was withdrawing. the eu says it will stick to the agreement and will not reimpose sanctions on iran which were lifted under the 2015 accord in return for curbs on its nuclear programme. in tehran there's been a fierce reaction, with iran's supreme leader hitting back at president trump, saying that he had made a mistake and that there were more than ten lies in yesterday's speech. meanwhile, oil prices have risen to the highest level since 2014. once hailed as an historic agreement, as far as the us is concerned, the i

matisse artwork sold for $75 million. high-end artwork still an investment for high net worth.illion. we have exceeded that already. we will see how the bid goes through. seems like an electric night at the christie's auction. the dollar held onto its gains after president trump said the u.s. will pull out of the iran nuclear accord. analysis. welcome back to hong kong. ms. iran deal, what implications will this have on the market? is it more de-risking flow to the dollar? >> we think so. we saw in the run-up to the announcement the oil price was coming off, a bit risk off in the market. the dollar-yen was under pressure. we think it is paving the way for dollar gains. we have bullish on the dollar for some time. finally we are seeing redoubling of dollar and yields. i want the pull up this chart, this gtv chart. we see this oil and dollar correlation, not negative, to what we have been seeing. the three have been tracking quite closely to each other for much of this year. how much longer can this last? kamal: the oil story is also a supply story. in terms of where the dollar h

. >> the tone was set early when this matisse -- >> yours it is. >> sold for $80 million, an all-times "water lilies in bloom" soared past its $50 million estimate as auctioneer cannon juggled five bids. the bidding rallied back and forth with increasing ses penus. >> $68 million. >> and kept climbing. >> never too late to jump in. at $71 million. >> the final price nearly $85 million including a buyer's commission, also an all-time record for monet. >> to have on the same night records for two of the geniuses of painting, matisse and monet, something that i never imagined would happen. >> the rockefeller collection may be the most important private collection ever sold. >> welcome to the annual meeting of chase manhattan corporation. >> the longtime chief of chase manhattan bank, david rockefeller, was the grandson of america's first billionaire, john d. rockefeller, who made his fortune in standard oil. david's father built rockefeller center, where in a 2002 interview for "sunday morning" he gave me a tour of the family offices. >> this is the one that belonged to gertrude stein. >

this matisse, $80 million. this monet, $85 million. we have broken the record, for any collection sale. >> the frenzy continued on night two. when gilbert stewart portrait of george washington was on the block. >> at $950,000. $1 million now. $1,100,000. >> it soared past its $1.2 million estimate. the final price, $11.5 million. ten times the estimate was a record for the artist. when we previewed the sale last weekend, with christie's mark porter he showed us dessert service made for napoleon. >> this is napoleon's ice cream bowl basically. off awe it is. >> estimated at $250,000 it sold for $1.8 million. even the relatively inexpensive items went for staggering prices. a picnic basket given to david rockefeller by the king of morocco, estimate $1,200. brought $212,000. so how far back in family history would some of these go? >> the family's old spider carriage that david rockefeller jr. showed us, fetched $225,000. finally, there was the rockefeller center money clip. with a modest estimate of $1,200 it attracted a lot of attention

that hung under the stairs of the rockefeller home in west chester county matisse's odalisque couch auxagnolias went for 81 million. there are still more than 1400 lots from the rockefellers all the proceeds go to charity just these 44 pieces alone was the single largest single sale auction ever you still have over 1400 pieces to go the rest of this week being sold online and day tail s today, thursday and friday a lot of the bids came from asia and china. the rockefeller name is huge in asia >> to walk into someone's house, there it is. >> under the stairs. >> need like an adt system or something. >> i don't think under the stairs, like harry potter. >> no. you could see it >> you walk in yeah, that's nice. >> most people, as soon as you walk in the home, that's what you see on the wall. amazing that the rockefeller name still has that meaning. >> in the old days, i had a lot of -- ethan allen, you heard of him? i had them everywhere. >> not a lot of price appreciation >> patriot >> the kind that you walk in a lot of places, i have that one >> it was in my hotel last night. >> exactly.

matisse, monet, christie's is handling this.: this is a picasso of a young woman nude, which hung in their library. alix: just whatever. jason: i love this quote at the end of the story, because it talks to, rockefellers are as close as we have two american royalty. they live adjacent to the area they created and lived in and many of the rockefeller still live there. business royalty, the combination of royalty and business. jason: and philanthropy. alix: do we have a breakdown on who wanted to buy? jason: we do not have a clear idea yet. as the auction -- because as you said at the top, there is several more that will happen. one of the interesting quotes at the end of the story, it mentions this idea of american royalty and if you are a new collector it is great validation because it was owned by this amazing family. if you are an old collector you think it is cool that you have a piece the rockefellers had. david: where is the money going? every dime is going to philanthropic organizations. including the council on foreign re

i've spoken to general matiss and the joint chiefs of staff and our military, which is by far the mostgreatly enhanced recently, as you all know, is ready, if necessary. likewise, i have spoken to south korea and japan, and they are not only ready, should foolish or reckless acts be taken by north korea, but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden, any of the costs associated by the united states in operations if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon us. hopefully, positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north korea. but if they don't, we are more ready than we have ever been before. north korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization and joining the community of nations, and i hope that kim jong-un will ultimately do what is right, not only for himself, but perhaps, most importantly, what's right for his people who are suffering greatly and needlessly. all of the korean people, north and south, deserve to be able to live together in harmony, prosperity and pea

this matisse, $80 million. this memo nation, nearly $85 million.that first session, christie's jessica fertig said -- >> we have already broken the record for any collection sale. >> reporter: the frenzy continued on night two when gilbert stuart's renowned portrait of george washington was on the block. >> at $950,000, $1 million now, 1$1.1 million. >> reporter: the final price, $11.5 million, ten times the estimate, was a record for the artist. when we previewed the sale last weekend with christie's marc porter, he showed us a dessert service made for napoleon. >> this is napoleon's ice cream bowl basically. >> it is his ice cream bowl. >> reporter: estimated at $250,000, it sold for $1.8 million. even the relatively inexpensive items went for staggers prices. a picnic basket given to david rockefeller by the king of morocco, estimate, $1,200 brought $212,500. and the spider fhaeton carriage that david rockefeller jr. showdown us which bore his father's monogram fetched $225,000. finally there was the rockefeller senty money clip with a modest es

this, the greatest matisse to come to market in 50 years, sold for over £59 million.ed the auction after his father passed away last year. in an effort to continue his family's legacy of giving, he says the proceeds will go to charity. this high—profile sale attracted the biggest collectors and newcomers. it showed the continued strength of the art market but also the enduring power of the rockefeller name. nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. he's known as the king by manchester united supporters, and now the football legend eric cantona is dusting off his boots and getting ready to return to old trafford. cantona will be playing in the soccer aid charity football match injune alongside usain bolt, 0lly murs and gordon ramsay. the event, which takes place every two years, has raised £24 million since its launch in 2006. i thought usain bolt would be formidable! all the sport and the weather coming up all the sport and the weather coming upfor all the sport and the weather coming up for you all the sport and the weather coming upforyou a all the sport and the weather comi

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