Sotheby's auction: the hits and misses

Kazimir Malevich's painting Suprematist Composition from 1916, which the Russian artist completed the same year he wrote his Suprematist Manifesto, sold for just over $60m (£37m), smashing the artist's auction record of $17m Photograph: Dima Gavrysh/AP

Edgar Degas' painting Dancer in Repose sold for just over $37m (£23m), an all-time high for the artist Photograph: Dima Gavrysh/AP

A security guard looks at Deux Grands Leopards by Rembrandt Bugatti during a press preview. Estimated price: $1,500,000—$2m; it sold for $1,370,500 (£863,001), more than $100,00 (£63,000) less than the lowest estimate Photograph: AFP

Pipe Players (centre) by Boris Grigoriev sold for below its estimated price at $3,218,500 (£2m), while Man with a Pipe (left) exceeded expectation selling for $1,142,500 (£719,114), as did Shepherd of the Hills (right), which sold for $3,722,500 (£2,343,022) Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP

Vampire (1894) by Edvard Munch, shown here at a preview for the press, sold for $38,162,500 (£24m), breaking the existing record of $30.8m (£19.6m) for Girls on a Bridge Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP

Working Model for Draped Reclining Figure by Henry Moore sold for less than expected at $1,818,500 (£1,147,527) Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP

Yves Klein's Archisponge RE 11 from 1960 is seen during a preview ahead of Sotheby's contemporary art auction on November 11 2008 Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Tom Wesselmann's Great American Nude #21 (right) and Roy Lichtenstein's 1963 Half Face with Collar (estimated price $15,000,000 – 20,000,000) are previewed ahead of Sotheby's contemporary art sale on November 11 2008 Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters