A Claude Monet painting, "Meule," part of his famous grainstack series, sold at auction in New York Wednesday for $81.4 million, a record for the French master.
One of the world's leading collectors of Chinese art, Belgian billionaire Guy Ullens, is to give up his Beijing museum and sell his private collection.
The Louvre and the Rijksmuseum have come together to buy two large Rembrandt portraits for 160 million euros ($175 million) from the Rothschild family.
