Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

The inaugural auction at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York produced a series of fireworks, not least a record for any lot ever sold by the 281-year-old firm.

A painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) that has been in a British private collection since the 19th century will lead Christie’s Old Master evening sale in London next month.

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

A string of notable five and six-figure prices at the autumn art sales in the UK included a couple of ‘trademark’ Modern British pictures.

A good sum for a painting by Richard Eurich (1903-92) at an auction outside London came at Mallams’ latest Art & Music sale in Oxford.

The Modern and Contemporary art market isn’t all about the expensive headline lots sold during Frieze week.

Cumbria saleroom Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) broke its own auction record for Percy Kelly (1918-93) this autumn.

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest two-day sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest sale of works by Modern British women artists in London.

A painting of Mary Magdalene by Ambrosius Benson (c.1495-1550) drew dramatic competition at a recent US auction.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.