A witness statement by novelist Émile Zola relates the sword fight between the painter and critic Edmond Duranty after he penned a lukewarm review of Manet’s work.
The physicist s diagram of a gravitational lens and over 30 complex calculations across three pages of paper, written in 1936, sold for eight times more than the expected £80,000.
A letter written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 showing the composer "in a complete panic" over his love life is set to go up for auction at Christie s in London next month. The two-page letter displays Mozart asking a close friend for advice following a "misunderstanding" with his soon-to-be mother-in-law.