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Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday.

It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world. One of the most iconic images in art history - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. During an intense 12 minutes, the 1895 artwork - a modern symbol of human anxiety - was sold at Sotheby's in New York City on Wednesday for a record $119,922,500. Neither the buyer's name nor any details about the buyer was released.

Sotheby's says an unfinished early Jane Austen manuscript has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.6 million)....

The first 13 rules rules of basketball sold Friday for more than $4 million, setting a record for the highest sales price ever for sports memorabilia, according to Sotheby's, which conducted the auction.

A rare pink diamond that goes on sale next month could fetch up to $38 million, according to auctioneers Sotheby's.

A rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, billed as the world's most expensive book, is to go on sale at Sotheby's.

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold Wednesday at a London auction for $104.3 million - a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.

The price rose at break-neck speed at Sotheby’s auction as five collectors vied for the classic image of “200 One Dollar Bills.”