1 Kings 4:21, 29â34. The Israelites came to King Solomon when they needed help. One day two women came to him with a baby boy. The women said they lived in the same house. They each had a baby, but one of the babies died. Now both women wanted the baby that was alive. Each mother said he was her baby. They wanted King Solomon to tell them who could keep the baby.
The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of Â£24.75 million (Â£62.8 million in current value) it tripled the previous record and introduced a new era in top art sales.
Picasso masterpiece becomes the most-expensive painting sold in the UK for six years after fetching a staggering Â£43.3 MILLION at auction. A bidding battle for a Picasso masterpiece at a London auction house has seen it sell for a staggering Â£43.3 million. There was no shortage of interest when Pablo Picasso's 'Femme assise' went up for sale, becoming the most expensive painting to be sold in the UK for six years. The Cubist piece was painted by the Spanish maestro as a 27-year-old in 1909. Sold: Pablo Picasso's 'Femme assise' was sold for Â£43.3 million becoming the most expensive painting sold in the UK for six years. Alberto Giacometti's 'Walking Man I' sold for Â£65 million in February, 2010.