Warhol’s Elvis sells for $37m in Sotheby’s sale

Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis sold for $37m (€28m) and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale.

Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl, depicting a woman with closed eyes and flowing blond hair, fetched $44.8m, while Weiwei’s one-tonne, handmade porcelain Sunflower Seeds went for $782,500.

Another major work on the auction block — Francis Bacon’s Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror — also sold for $44.8m