A wooden bust by Paul Gauguin has sold for $11.3m (£6.8m) at Sotheby's in New York, a record price for a statue by the 19th Century French artist.
Jeune tahitienne (Young Tahitian) was last seen in public in 1961.
The work had been predictable to sell for between $10m (£6m) and $15m (£9m), the sale house said.
The current record for a Gauguin work is held by L'homme a la hache (The Man with an Axe), which sold for $40.3m (£24.4m) in 2006.
The latest auction agrees with a Gauguin exhibition taking place at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
It is the first main exhibit of the artist's career in the United States in approximately 20 years.
This week's sale contrasts with an earlier auction in London in February when a rare Gauguin picture failed to sell.
Nature Morte A L'Esperance (Still Life with Sunflowers) had been probable to fetch up to £10 million at the Christie's event.
