Botticelli painting sells for £67m at auction

Sandro Botticelli’s painting called Young Man Holding A Roundel is displayed at Sotheby’s in New York (Seth Wenig/AP)

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for 92.2 million US dollars (£67.1 million), an auction record for the Renaissance master.

The work, Young Man Holding A Roundel, from about 1475, depicts a young nobleman holding a round painting of a saint.