A triptych by Francis Bacon has fetched $84.6m at a Sotheby's auction held without an audience and live-streamed to bidders worldwide in a first for the company forced to adapt its big events during ...

The Louvre Museum recently acquired a 19th century triptych created by the House of Fabergé and presented as a gift to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra for the birth of their first ...

A Francis Bacon small-format triptych of his lover George Dyer made what Sotheby's called a "landmark" price of £26.7 million (€33.4 million) yesterday in a contemporary art sale that surpassed ...

The BBC's Nick Dempsey offers his impressions of the final event (Add your own comments at the bottom of this page) Last night saw a celebratory occasion tinged with a little sadness as we bid ...