A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 ...

"Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which played a role in protecting the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust, sold ...

Later in the evening, an 18-karat-gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana ...

According to a report in The Guardian, the painting, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, measured roughly six feet in height and ...

A mysterious Gustav Klimt painting has just made history by being the second-most expensive artwork ever at auction, and the ...

Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s ...

What the heart-pumping evening, which saw many pieces attract multiple bidders and sell above their presale estimates, means ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66m in New York, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman.

A collector in the room at Sotheby’s New York headquarters for the sale tells us they spotted producer Murphy placing the ...

In its catalogue note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m, making it the most expensive work by a ...