Despite some concerns of a flagging market, November’s art week had a relatively strong start – with several marquee pieces selling for above their estimated values.

Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after it fetched 142 million dollars in New York. The triptych ...

setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. The sale at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art auction featured other works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and ...

Tech titans have a taste for expensive art. We've rounded up some of the biggest purchases here. Bill Gates set what was then an American art record when he bought Winslow Homer's "Lost on the ...

An original watercolour illustration has become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold - fetching $1.9m (£1.5m) at auction in the US. The artwork for the first edition of JK Rowling's ...