10 biggest sales at Sotheby`s auction

Mark Rothko painting No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange, pictured centre) was sold at Sotheby’s auction in New York for $45 million on November 11. Another highlight was Jasper Johns' "Flag." It brought in $36 million, a record for the artist's work at auction. Andy Warhol's portrait of Elizabeth Taylor (right) fetched $31.5 million

Pablo Picasso's portrait of Dora Maar was sold at Sotheby's auction in 2006 for $95.2 million. It depicts Dora Maar, Picasso’s lover, who was painted by him several times over their nearly decade-long relationship

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2012. It was sold by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was a friend and patron of the artist for $119,9 million

In November 2006, Pollock's No. 5, 1948 became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000

In 2006 cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder payed $135 million for Gustav Klimt's portrait of a Viennese lady from 1907 "Adele Bloch-Bauer 1"

Francis Bacon's painting "Triptych, 1976" was bought for $86.2 million at Sotheby's auction by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in May 2008

In 2013 the Pink Star diamond was auctioned by Sotheby's. A 59.6-carat oval cut diamond was bought by New York diamond cutter Isaac Wolf for $83,2 million. He later renamed it The Pink Dream

Andy Warhol's "Silver Car Crash" was sold for $104.5 million at Sotheby's auction in 2013. The silkscreen print with multiple photos of the aftermath of a car which collided into a tree is part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series

In 2004, a Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg bought a collection of decorative Faberge Easter eggs. The cost was not announced, but businessman didnt refute media, according to which he had paid about $100 million for the collection. Photo: An Easter egg from a collection of Viktor Vekselberg, which consists of about 4000 works by jeweller Peter Carl Faberge including nine imperial Easter eggs owned by the Russian tsars

In 2010 Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Walking Man I' or 'L'Homme qui marche I' was sold at Sotheby's auction in London for the price of $104 million

In 2004 Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting "Boy with a Pipe" was sold for $104 million at Sotheby's in New York. Acoourding to sources, the painting was sold to italian Barilla Group