Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Klimt painting, which hung in the billionaire Leonard A. Lauder's home for decades, is now the most expensive work of modern ...

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

From a 19th-century mythological masterpiece snapped up by vaccine billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla for ₹167 crore, to a ...

It's another day to learn something new, and we have put together three most expensive paintings ever sold. The Gauguin painting was sold for $300m. It's the highest price ever paid for a work of art, ...

At Saffronart’s Spring Live Auction on April 1, Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna was sold for ₹167.2 crore (USD ...

Raja Ravi Varma’s celebrated oil painting Yashoda and Krishna has rewritten history by selling for a staggering Rs 167.2 crore. The landmark sale took place at a high-profile spring auction hosted by ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer"; The Sotheby's auction in New York City on Nov. 18. The art market received a much-needed jolt when a portrait by an Austrian artist became the ...

This Klimt painting, which hung in the billionaire Leonard A. Lauder's home for decades, is now the most expensive work of modern art to ever sell at auction. - Courtesy Sotheby's What do a notorious ...

(CNN) — What does 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 ...