Warhol painting fetches $15m
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Andy Warhol's 1963 painting Mustard Race Riot, about civil rights protests, sells for $15.1m (Â£8.1m).
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Stolen Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet works worth $160m (Â£82m) may have been found, Swiss media report.
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Long before Warhol's soup cans, Jasper Johns revolutionized painting with works that were right on target.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A Manhattan art gallery owner has  pleaded guilty to fraud charges in an international art forgery  scheme that spanned 15 years, government officials said on  Monday.
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A painting that hung for several years in a bank cafeteria has set a new record price for Australian aboriginal artwork, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday, confirming the ongoing boom for the genre.
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Gauguin and Modigliani help an auction reach the highest total for an impressionist and modern art sale since 1990.
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Claude Monet's masterpiece Nympheas is expected to fetch up to Â£15m at auction.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne was estimated at $163 million.
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An unknown painting by old master El Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting price of 600,000 pounds (&#36;1.1 million).
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A painting by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael that had not been seen publicly for more than 40 years was sold at auction Thursday for $37.2 million.
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A 1946 painting by LS Lowry is sold for the highest price paid for the artist at an auction.
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A rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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A Turner painting which sold for a record Â£5.8m at auction earlier this year is barred from going abroad.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, given by Britain's World War Two leader to U.S. President Harry Truman, is expected to fetch up to 500,000 pounds ($1 million) at auction in December.