Expected to achieve between $6 million and $8 million, the portraits depict a boy and a girl ... contemporary art sales, which benefit from a steady influx of new supply, Old Masters auctions ...

Known for her hauntingly surreal, dream-like portraits, Lux’s photographs feature young children digitally altered to resemble the aristocratic stiffness and formality of Old Master paintings.

But my sister, Kitty, and I have never been known to follow the crowd—unless that crowd is heading toward Old Master paintings. We like 500-year-old artworks that speak to us from out of the ...

Saunders, ardent US collectors who had flown in over Thanksgiving to see the painting, along with their adviser George Wachter, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of Old Master paintings.