The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £190.3m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction

Under patrimony laws the museum cannot intervene during the auction but can buy up works at the final price

The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government

A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection

Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m

Healthy bidding at Canadian auction house Heffel also achieved strong results for painter Lawren Harris

At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display

Warranties of authenticity offered to buyers can be hard to enforce when auctioneers can fall back on the “generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts”

Previous top price was $82m for a portrait of Dr Gachet

The Players Foundation says the current financial crisis has forced it to reassess how it manages its assets and ensures its benevolent work is ongoing

Of course Sunflowers is included, along with some surprises—and another on the way

Gerda Wegener’s 1924 painting of her partner Lili Elbe shows the subject as a languid odalisque

Counterculture relic originally design by Hells Angel artist Allan "Gut" Terk sold for nearly $18,000

A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today

The unique coin from 1933, part of a collection amassed by luxury shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman, sold at Sotheby's in New York yesterday

Sale of controversial 1936 painting criticised by organisation behind artist Hergé’s estate

Almost half of the auction's total sales value was bought by Asian buyers, but 12 lots sold below their estimates

In demand contemporary artists hit big in Asia but several Modern stalwarts failed to make a splash in multi-city hybrid auction

While the top lot of the night—a fiery self-portrait by George Baselitz—struggled to meet its low estimate, a bidding war broke out over Dana Schutz's painting of a bright orange Trump

The work comes from the collection of the Norweigan shipping heir Hans Rasmus Astrup and is the second major coup for the auction house’s spring sales season

The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats

Nicole Eisenman, Jean-Michel Basquiat and a dozen Italians help weather the Brexit storm

The auction house cites increasing interest in Aboriginal art among US collectors and institutions

Post-war and contemporary sale in New York also produced a big sale for Robert Rauschenberg and new records for Louise Bourgeois and Jonas Wood

The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night

The “snake jug” shattered the previous record for Anna Pottery, a niche favourite of Americana collectors

The 31 October sale has prompted calls for repatriation and criticism of the seller, highlighting the gap between art ethics and law

Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) could become the most valuable work by a living artist sold at auction