The most expensive music single sold at auction is a rare seven-inch copy of unreleased 1965 single Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) by Frank Wilson (USA). It sold for £25,742 ($39,294) to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. Seller Kenny Burrell, a DJ and record...
The most expensive painting by the Dutch Old Master Rembrandt Van Rijn to be sold at auction is Portrait of a Man, Half-length, With his Arms Akimbo, sold at Christie’s in London, UK, on 8 December 2009, for £20 m ($28.5 m). The painting is oil on canvas and was...
The most expensive pressing iron sold at auction is $15,000 (£8,839.65; €10,413.30) excluding commission, purchased by Ion Chirescu (Romania) and auctioned by Simmons & Company Auctioneers, Inc (USA) in Cleveland, USA, on 06 August 2009. Ion Chirescu has also held...
The most expensive bicycle sold at auction is £318,000 ($500,000) and was sold at Sothebys, New York, on 1 November 2009. The one-off creation named ‘Butterfly bike’ by British artist Damien Hirst was ridden by Lance Armstrong (USA) during the final stage...
An armchair made by Irish-born designer Eileen Gray around 1917 to 1919 and belonging to Yves Saint Laurent (France), sold at auction for €21.9 million (then £19.4 million; US$28 million). The buyer, Cheska Vallois (France), was the same dealer who originally sold the...