The value of works by female artists accounted for 30 percent of the sale's total, despite only accounting for 13.5 percent of the evening's works.

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With each record-breaking sale, the bar gets set higher, the stakes get sharper, and the frenzy deepens.

Nearly a dozen of these works will be unveiled to the public for the first time, while others return to view after decades in private hands. 

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The top work sold was a drawing by Pablo Picasso for $1.2 million.

Notable cases this year included the Andy Warhol Foundation, MoMA, Richard Prince, Sotheby's, and Dmitry Rybolovlev.

Works by female Surrealists, including a rare Leonora Carrington, highlighted an affair that was sometimes sleepy.

Portraits of Picasso's other romantic partners have historically sold for sizable sums at auction.