It was the night before Thanksgiving, 1980. An unexpected blizzard had coated central Missouri in inches of snow. And John Morris’ car had just spun off an icy road and into a ditch. John was still ...

PARIS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A rarely seen painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting his son and his nursemaid, was sold for 1.45 million euros ($1.68 million) at an auction held ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. Kahlo’s surrealist self portrait, which was sold by ...

“The Dream (The Bed)” by the Mexican artist sold for $54.7 million. Photo: Stefan Ruiz/Sotheby’s Mexican painter Frida Kahlo became the most expensive female artist at auction on Thursday when Sotheby ...

Yeah, you read that right. I drove over 100 miles on my trip to San Francisco, but I didn't do any of the driving. In fact, I'm not sure I ever touched the steering ...

new video loaded: Klimt Art Is Second-Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction transcript At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...