Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night

With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding

A double pool portrait, estimated at $80m and offered at Christie’s with no reserve, could set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist

At $317.8m, the Ebsworth evening sale becomes one of the top five most valuable collections ever sold at auction

Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter

New York auction topped by Monet's Le bassin aux nymphaés, sold to an Asian buyer at $31.8m

The 20-lot sale spans the auction house's New York and London locations and includes works ranging from Old Master paintings to a Monet

Now being sold by a London-based collector at Christie's New York, the work will probably go to Japan or China

The work, commissioned in the 1990s for $10,000, is due to be sold at Christie’s, New York for an estimated $10m to $15m

The auction house hopes the works will surpass previous records by several million

But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit

The US artist dominated the top prices during New York sales series, where the commercial appeal of attractive subjects showed through in prices

New record for Joan Mitchell as fresh artists join the $10m-and-up club—but Bacon and Basquiat still dominate top prices in New York

Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times

Even without a $150m-plus headliner, the auction topped rival Sotheby’s by $100m thanks to deeper, more even bidding

Dealing dynasty says that the painting bought in the Rockefeller sale will be loaned to the Musée d’Orsay

Sex sells—but only if it is guaranteed

Highlights include works by Cady Noland, Kerry James Marshall and Lyonel Feininger

Leaning on romance of Rockefeller name and its appeal to international and first-time buyers, the auction house triumphed in its marathon week of sales