Buffalo Station (1997-98) by Peter Doig sold at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale for £7.5 million (including buyer’s premium). Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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Detail of Propped (1992) by Jenny Saville. Saville set the record at auction for a living female artist in Sotheby’s London sale, The History of Now: The collection of David Tieger.  Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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La Dormeuse (1932) by Pablo Picasso sold at Phillips 20^th Century & Contemporary Evening Sale in London on 8 March 2018 for £37 million (excluding buyer’s premium), contributing to the auction house’s stellar performance in the first half of this year. Image courtesy of Phillips.

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Robert Motherwell’s “At Five in the Afternoon” (1971) sold at Phillips 20^th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on 17 May 2018 for a hammer price of $11 million. The work was from the collection of Holly Hunt. This was the second highest earning painting from the sale, followed by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Flexible” (1984), which sold for a hammer price of $40 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.  

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