A painting by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for $42.6m (£26.4m) - a new record for the US 'pop artist'.

The cartoon-style painting, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's in New York, features a woman on the phone with a speech bubble containing the title.

The sale of contemporary and post-war works fetched $272.8m (£169.1m) in all.

Yet an Andy Warhol piece expected to fetch up to $50m (£31m) went for less than half that amount.

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The term Pop art was first used by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to describe the work of the Independent Group - an association of artists who were opposed to the pretentiousness of affectation of the art world. Creating works modeled upon popular advertisements, comic strips, cheap products and mass media, they sought to parody popular culture.

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