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A sculpture by Pablo Picasso fetched almost $29.16m (€19.9m) when it was sold at auction, Sotheby’s said.

One of Vincent Van Gogh’s last landscapes and a Turner masterpiece thought by many to have been lost are among the highlights at art auctions this autumn.

A RARE portrait of one of Picasso’s mistresses has become the second most expensive artwork sold at auction in the world, after going under the hammer for $95.2 million (€75m) in New York.

A portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sold for £12.6m (€18.5m) today at a Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings and sculptures, the highest auction price ever paid for a work by the artist.