Austrian-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898, in Merano, Austria-Hungary, now located in modern-day Italy. His father was a painter and hotel owner and his mother an amateur ...

A signed 1980 tempera on Masonite painting by Marc Chagall soared to $199,700, a 1929 gouache and watercolor on Arches paper signed by Raoul Dufy realized $78,700... The auction’s undisputed headliner ...