Art & Photography
Asterix cover art sets new record
Uderzo's original illustration for Asterix and the Banquet sold for $1.7m
Early Marc Chagall painting heading for Sotheby’s
Marc Chagall painted Les Amoureux in the late 1920s
Early surrealist Magritte artwork to sell in Paris
One of Magritte’s first forays into surrealism could make $2.3m
Robert Crumb cover art offered in Dallas sale
The original art to Zap Comix #1 belonged to singer Graham Nash
JMW Turner’s Ehrenbreitstein (1835) makes $23.9m
Ehrenbreitstein is among the last major Turners in circulation
Lost Jackson Pollock painting to sell in Arizona
The Jackson Pollock painting was discovered in an attic
Francois Pompon’s Ours Blanc valued at $600,000
This is a marble rendition of Pompon’s monumental polar bear
Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sets $110.5m record
The painting almost doubled the record for a Basquiat
Japanese ox netsuke sold for five times its estimate
The ox netsuke is by master craftsman Izumiya Tomotada
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Barcelona set to auction
Cartier-Bresson is one of photography’s most influential figures
