#AuctionUpdate Monkey Business 🐒🍌: #Banksy ’s monumental painting of the House of Commons overrun with parliamentary primates sells to applause at £9,879,500 - 9 times its previous record - after a 13 minute bidding battle.

#AuctionUpdate : The third Jean-Michel Basquiat of the evening, ‘Campaign’ fetches $10M.

#AuctionUpdate : Second of the Joan Mitchell works tonight, ‘Noon’ sold above estimate at $22.6M. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Untitled’ from 1984 sells for $19.4M, setting a new auction record for their legendary Collaboration series. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : At public auction for the first time in three decades, Leonora Carrington’s defining masterpiece ‘Les Distractions de Dagobert’ soars to a new record for the artist, fetching $28.5M. #SothebysModern

#AuctionUpdate : Andy Warhol’s iconic ‘Late Four-Foot Flowers’ goes for $11.2M. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : An iconic haystack painting, Claude Monet’s ‘Meules à Giverny’ achieves an astounding $34.8M after an almost 8-minute bidding battle. #SothebysModern

#AuctionUpdate : Painted circa 1879, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's ‘Roses dans un vase de cristal’ achieves an impressive $3.2M.

#AuctionUpdate : It’s almost impossible not to love a floral painting by Édouard Manet, as recognized by the New York sale room tonight. ‘Vase de fleurs, roses et lilas’ sold for $10M. #SothebysModern

#AuctionUpdate : One of four oils Magritte completed of this motif, ‘Le Banquet’ is rendered in his quintessential restrained realism. The work sold for $18M. #SothebysModern

#AuctionUpdate : A seminal work by Lucio Fontana, ‘Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio’ achieves $23M. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate The 20th/21st Century: London evening sales achieve £196,685,600. René Magritte's L'ami intime is top lot of the evening, achieving £33,660,000; masterpieces by Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Claude Monet all cruise past the £10m mark: bit.ly/48FPFjf

#AuctionUpdate : Alice Neel’s portrait of ‘Gerard Malanga’ goes for $2.2M. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : The only oil painting by Magritte to feature the piano and ring motif, ‘La Main heureuse’ sells for $4M. #SothebysModern

#AuctionUpdate #RenéMagritte 's 'Le paysage de Baucis' realised £3,912,000. The work is a rare and important gouache by René Magritte made in 1966 and subsequently donated by the artist to raise funds for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1967.

#AuctionUpdate #RenéMagritte 's 'L'ami intime' achieved £33,660,000. The anonymous man in a bowler hat is one of the most familiar icons of René Magritte's art: bit.ly/3VfkTua

#AuctionUpdate ‘Bedtime’, a piece from Grant Riven Yun’s Midwest series achieves $69,850.

#AuctionUpdate : Some of Bacon’s best and most haunting work— ‘Portrait of George Dyer Crouching’, sells for $28M #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : After a 6 minute bidding battle, Cy Twombly’s ‘Untitled’ kicks off the Contemporary Evening Auction at #SothebysNewYork , fetching $7.5M. #SothebysContemporary

#AuctionUpdate : The first of 4 Joan Mitchell canvases in the sale tonight, ‘Untitled’ circa 1973 fetches $2.4M. #SothebysContemporary