Art: Bacon, Basquiat, Warhol and Hockney in the picture in New York 

Des O'Sullivan takes a look at the masterworks at Christie's and Sotheby's

The Italian Version of Popeye has no Pork in his Diet by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The Italian Version of Popeye Has no Pork in His Diet, a lawn being sprinkled, a haunting portrait of a lover and muse, scientific literature and Irish and Mexican myth getting the surreal treatment all feature at the big art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York this month.

The 20th/21st Century series at Christie's and masterworks spanning more than a century of production at Sotheby's underline the glorious diversity of modern, contemporary and post-war paintings and the boundary-pushing art of now.