“A painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been sold for $22.4m in New York, breaking the world sales record for the artist’s work. His 1886 work La Blanchisseuse shows a female laundry worker gazing out of a window. It beat the 1997 record of $14.5m for one of his works. Christie’s annual autumn art auction also sold Picasso’s Sylvette on a Green Armchair for $8m. But Henri Matisse’s Marguerites failed to reach its $10m asking price. A pair of Monet paintings also remained unsold, drawing no bids beyond $3.2m after pre-sale estimates of up to $6m. Christie’s two-week Impressionist and modern art sale took a total of $160.9m in its first week.”