The work, painted in about 1560, had not been seen on the market in some 30 years. It went to a private European collector bidding by phone, selling within the $15-20 million pre-sale estimate.

The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans. By Jillian Steinhauer Claire Tabouret, an artist in Los Angeles, was chosen to ...