At $80m, the Hockney set a new mark beating that held by Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange), which sold for $58.4m in 2013.

The most famous mention of the martini is, of course, its description as that most favoured by Commander James Bond...

One of Shakespeare’s plays with themes of mistaken identity, social climbing and transvestism no less, is Twelfth Night, a play traditionally performed at the seasonal time of year.

Delaunay produced a work in 1914 as an homage to a pioneer of engineering, the aviator Louis Bleriot.

Art Deco came about through a range of artists, furniture makers and architects converging.