Nearly £200 million of art went under the hammer at Christie's in New York with an Andy Warhol painting of a car crash selling for a record £36.04 million while a portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetched £14m. The highest post-war and contemporary art sale in history saw 26 world auction records set.
May 2007
Records were shattered at Sotheby's $255 million auction of contemporary and postwar art.
May 2007
They've become big collectors, but their efforts are not universally welcome.
May 2007
Details from a Christie's auction featuring artists of the Sao Paulo 9 Exbiition
May 2007
A new record was set for work by Andy Warhol when a painting of a car crash sold for $71.7m (£36.3m) in New York.