In another hotly anticipated sale, Claude Monet’s “Nymphéas ... The Monet was part of the late Sydell Miller’s expensive art collection – which also includes works by Pablo Picasso ...

A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...