according to auction house Sotheby's. Entitled "Crude Oil (Vettriano)" and sometimes called "Toxic beach," the painting first revealed by Banksy in 2005 was sold at Sotheby's in London ...

The piece, titled Study of Reclining Lions, had been in the same family's possession for 150 years since the posthumous sale of the artist's studio in 1864. The work is set to go to auction where it ...

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New ...

Fetching the staggering amount at a Saffronart auction yesterday, it shares the position with Amrita Sher-Gil's The ...

heads to auction on Tuesday with a price estimate of up to $6.35 million. “Crude Oil (Vettriano)” is Banksy’s re-imagining of the 1992 painting “The Singing Butler” by Scottish artist ...

Unlike his typical street art, this addition to his Crude Oil series was a work ... This week, he put the work up for sale at Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction. ‘Crude Oil (Vettriano)’ ...

Why did an anonymous bidder buy a portrait of the antisemite who tortured my grandfather? Why did an auction house sell it?

The painting sold to a private buyer at auction in London the day after it was confirmed Vettriano had died aged 73.