Monet's Nympheas sells for Â£18.5m
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Claude Monet's impressionist masterpiece Nympheas is sold at auction in London for Â£18.5m
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The jewellery collection of opera singer Maria Callas has fetched over Â£1m at auction in Switzerland.
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A nude portrait of pregnant supermodel  Kate Moss by one of Britain's most renowned artists, Lucian  Freud, sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million) at a London  auction on Wednesday.
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Fixtures and fittings from Damien Hirst's restaurant Pharmacy sell for Â£11.1, Â£8m more than expected.
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A collection of items belonging to the late opera star Maria Callas fetches 1.76m Euros (Â£1.26m) at auction.
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The iconic black dress worn by Audrey  Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold for  410,000 pounds ($800,000) on Tuesday, around seven times its  pre-sale estimate.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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A view of the River Thames painted by Claude Monet sold for almost $36 million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the London art market.
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The Tate Gallery in London is expecting huge crowds for its joint Turner Whistler Monet exhibition.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne is estimated at $163 million.
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The treasure that a New York City woman saved from the rubbish -- a stolen masterpiece by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo -- is expected to go for as much as $1 million (488,000 pounds) at auction next month.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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Impressionist art still brings out the  big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on  Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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A painting attributed to cult graffiti  artist Banksy fetched more than 200,000 pounds ($391,000) in an  online auction on Monday. Now the lucky owner will just have to  work out how to get it home.
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$39.2 million for a Gauguin. $20.1 million for a Monet. The cost of impressionist and modern art continues to go up as evidenced by sales at two recent auctions by Sotheby&#39;s and Christie&#39;s.