2015 Event Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million 2014 Event The original lyrics to 'Like a Rolling Stone', handwritten by Bob Dylan on hotel stationery, sells for $2 million at auction 2014 Event 'Nympheas', a painting in Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' series, is auctioned today for a price of $54 million; this is only the second-highest price paid for a Monet - another painting in the series sold in 2008 for $80.3 million at auction 2014 Event Bayer strengthens its position in consumer healthcare after winning Merck's consumer-focused business unit at auction for $14.2 billion 2013 Event The painting, 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' by Sir Francis Bacon, sells for a record-high price of $142 million at Christie's auction in New York 2013 Event The largest fancy orange diamond on record was sold at Christie's auction in Geneva; the 14.82-carat stunner sold for $35.5 million 2013 Event An Apple I computer is sold for $617,000 at auction 2012 Event Roy Lichtenstein's picture, 'Sleeping Girl', sells at auction for $44.9 million, a new record for Lichtenstein's artwork 2012 Event A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house 2011 Event The auction record for paintings by Sir Stanley Spencer were broken twice within minutes at Sotheby's in London 2011 Event A record $79 million auction price is paid for Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang's 1988 'Forever Lasting Love' three-panel oil painting 2011 Event A large, rare, Andy Warhol self-portrait in red and white sells for $10.79 million pounds at Christie's auction house in London, England 2010 Event At auction, John James Audubon's 'Birds of America' sells for a record price of $10.3 million 2010 Event At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro 2010 Event The works of thirty celebrated Iranian artists go on sale at Bonhams auction house in Dubai 2010 Event An auction at Christie's in New York sets a record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction when it sells Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' for $106 million 1996 Event Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million 1996 Event Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie Onassis things nets $34.5 million 1991 Event Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction 1987 Event Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction 1984 Event Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla 1970 Event Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East 1951 Event New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1914 Event 1st U.S. duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, New York 1673 Event 1st recorded wine auction held in London
