Art & Photography
Jean-Auguste Ingres drawing stars in Rockefeller sale
Jean-Auguste Ingres was a big influence on the modernists
Samuel Palmer’s Shoreham Church sets record
Palmer’s A Church With A Boat And Sheep made $2.1m at Sotheby’s
Amazing Spider-Man cover art to lead at Heritage
Amazing Spider-Man #100 features a coveted ‘floating head’ design
Henry Darger illustration sells for well above estimate
Outsider artist Henry Darger spent his days working as a janitor
Joseph Wright of Derby painting sets artist record
Wright was one of the foremost painters of the Enlightenment
Winston Churchill’s last painting soars past estimate
Painting had long been Winston Churchill’s great passion
Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sells for unprecedented sum
Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi just made nearly half a billion dollars
Marc Chagall’s Les Amoureux sets new record
Marc Chagall’s Les Amoureux achieved $14.8m at Sotheby’s
Man Ray’s Noir et Blanche sets artist record
Noir et Blanche is the world’s eighth most valuable photo