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The only higher public sale remains ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo da Vinci, which sold in 2017 for $450m at Christie's

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

Zelensky referenced the painting in April 2022 while addressing Spain’s parliament

Other lives: Artist who built installations using domestic objects, from tea trolleys and buttons to cutlery and glass jars

The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show

Auctions will begin in March next year

The Louvre Museum has announced that it has closed one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. This is a further setback for the renowned institution which came under the spotlight last month after a daring jewellery…

A painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and red heels, once displayed in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home, resurfaces as online attention surges over a viral email about Trump 'blowing Bubba.'

Modernizing the Sully wing is among priorities of the renovation efforts announced in January

Other lives: Artist and teacher whose abstract work took nature as its major stimulus

The White House Historical Association has paid $5.8 million at auction to reclaim a series of Norman Rockwell sketches that once hung in the West Wing