A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...

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.

To tie in with the BBC’s London Season, bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings will feature a special London Guided Tour of selected works from the 200,000 paintings in this publicly owned collection. The ...