More than US$1.3bil worth of art sold this week in New York

Picasso’s 'Femme Assise Près d'une Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)' (1932) is the fifth-most-expensive work from the Spanish artist to sell at auction (US$103.4mil), according to the Artnet price database. Photo: AFP

Change is in the air.

The auction market, long dominated by work made by White men, is demonstrating some semblance of market diversity-not only in what’s offered, but also by how much people are willing to pay.