The result at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday reflects steady demand for art by women that experts believe has plenty of room to run.

Check out the top 10 most expensive women artists and their top lots, courtesy of information from the Artnet Price Database.

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most expensive female artist at auction, after her El sueno (la cama) painting sold for $US56 million.

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...

A 1940 self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for 54.7 million US dollars (£41.8 million), becoming the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a ...

At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.

Artwork by Erica Kovitz, featuring a used blunt roach from Snoop Dogg, sold at a recent auction for $70,000. It features Snoop Dogg's 1993 Los Angeles Police Department mugshot, for charges that were ...

Hot on the heels of a $1.5 billion art auction week, a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe broke the record for the most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction this morning. Georgia O’Keeffe, ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

new video loaded: Klimt Art Is Second-Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction transcript At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever ...