A 1940 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7 million and made auction history at Sotheby’s in New York ...

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

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

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

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is now the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction. How did Sotheby’s pull off ...

Vivian Warby A Gustav Klimt portrait made history this week when it sold for an astonishing $236.4 million (around R4 billion) at an auction in New York, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ...

The Frida Kahlo self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” shattered the auction record for a work by a female artist, selling for ...

A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.

A Klimt once stolen by Nazis has become the most valuable work of modern art ever sold at auction in a $236.4-million sale in ...