Impressionist and modern art works fetch $230m at Sotheby's – in pictures

Visitors talk near Paul Cezanne's Les Pommes, estimated at $25-35m. Three bidders pushed up the price before it sold for $37m Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Le Penseur, or The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, cast in 1906, which was bought for $15.3m Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Trois Femmes a la Table Rouge by Fernand Léger, a painting owned by Madonna. The painting sold for $7.2m, with proceeds going to the Ray of Light Foundation Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Sylvette by Pablo Picasso, a sculpture of his 19-year-old neighbour in Vallauris, France, sold for $12m Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

L'Amazone by Amedeo Modigliani, estimated at $20-30m. It went to a telephone bidder for $23m Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Ours Blanc by Fancois Pompon, from the collection of Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt, sold for $545,000 Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Eloge de la Melancolie by Paul Delvaux, which sold for $2,165,000 Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

Buste d'Homme by Pablo Picasso from 1969, which was expected to go for $5-7m, but was sold to a telephone bidder for $8.5m Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images