Art & Photography
Lowry's Beach Scene sells for $1.8m
LS Lowry's Beach Scene takes his matchstick men out of the factory for a day at the seaside
Nazi-looted artwork sells for $2.9m
The first Nazi-looted artwork to auction from the Cornelius Gurlitt collection has smashed its estimate
Monet's Iris mauves sells for $17.1m
Claude Monet's Iris mauves has beaten its estimate at Christie's
Norman ale jug sells for $49,000 in UK auction
A Norman ale jug led the Fine Art sale at Hansons Auctioneers on September 28
Ivan Shishkin's Twilight sells for record $3.3m with MacDougall's
With Russian Art Week underway in London, Ivan Shishkin's Twilight has broken the artist's record
Amazing Spider-Man cover sells for $71,500 at Heritage Auctions
John Romita Sr's cover art for Amazing Spider-Man #85 was matched by Amazing Fantasy #15
Basquiat's Female Pelvis sells for $7,750 in East Village auction
A Jean-Michel Basquiat lithograph entitled Female Pelvis sold 10.7% above estimate
Chardin's The Embroiderer sells for $4m at Christie's New York
The Embroiderer was one of Chardin's most popular compositions, and remains so today
Rare art sells estimated at 10% 'original value' for Jewish centre at Clark's Fine Art
Artworks with prior values of $30,000-40,000 have been slashed by Clark's for a good cause
Dorotheum sells Kabakov and Franckens paintings in a 'vigorous' 2011 art market
Franckens, Kabakov and Jawlensky paintings led Dorotheum's impressive 2011 auctions
Tlingit 'mosquito mask' sells for $365,000 at Christie's auction
The mosquito mask of the Tlingit people in the Pacific Northwest made five times its estimate
Sotheby's sells Jean-Paul Lemieux art for CA$1.095m - week after record sale
Another Lemieux art piece brought a World Record CA$2.34m last week, prior to Sotheby's latest auction
