Highest art auction prices ever recorded

The top 100 sales in the ArtSell database, ranked by price in US dollars at the sale-date exchange rate (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it). Works catalogued “attributed to”, “after” and similar are left out. Browse the top sales of a year, the most valuable artists, or this week’s notable sales.

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1. 1
   Salvator Mundi

   Leonardo da Vinci · Christie's · Nov 15, 2017
   $450,312,500
2. 2
   Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer

   Gustav Klimt · Sotheby's · Nov 18, 2025
   $236,400,000
3. 3
   Shot Sage Blue Marilyn

   Andy Warhol · Christie's · May 9, 2022
   $195,000,000
4. 4
   Number 7A

   Jackson Pollock · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $181,200,000
5. 5
   Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")

   Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 11, 2015
   $179,365,000
6. 6
   Nu couché

   Amedeo Modigliani · Christie's · Nov 9, 2015
   $170,405,000
7. 7
   Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)

   Amedeo Modigliani · Sotheby's · May 15, 2018
   $157,159,000
8. 8
   Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)

   Georges Seurat · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $149,240,000
9. 9
   Three Studies of Lucian Freud

   Francis Bacon · Christie's · Nov 12, 2013
   $142,405,000
10. 10
    Femme à la montre

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · Nov 9, 2023
    $139,300,000
11. 11
    La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

    Paul Cézanne · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $137,700,000
12. 12
    The Empire of Light

    René Magritte · Christie's · Nov 19, 2024
    $121,160,000
13. 13
    The Scream

    Edvard Munch · Sotheby's · May 2, 2012
    $119,922,500
14. 14
    Verger avec cyprès

    Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $117,100,000
15. 15
    Young Girl with a Flower Basket

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 8, 2018
    $115,000,000
16. 16
    Meules

    Claude Monet · Sotheby's · May 14, 2019
    $110,700,000
17. 17
    Untitled

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Sotheby's · May 18, 2017
    $110,500,000
18. 18
    Lady with a Fan

    Gustav Klimt · Sotheby's · Jun 27, 2023
    $108,636,936
19. 19
    Danaïde

    Constantin Brancusi · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $107,600,000
20. 20
    Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 4, 2010
    $106,482,500
21. 21
    Maternité II

    Paul Gauguin · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $105,700,000
22. 22
    Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)

    Andy Warhol · Sotheby's · Nov 13, 2013
    $105,445,000
23. 23
    Birch Forest

    Gustav Klimt · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $104,500,000
24. 24
    L'Homme qui marche I

    Alberto Giacometti · Sotheby's · Feb 3, 2010
    $104,300,000
25. 25
    Garçon à la pipe

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · May 5, 2004
    $104,168,000
26. 26
    Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 13, 2021
    $103,400,000
27. 27
    Chariot

    Alberto Giacometti · Sotheby's · Nov 4, 2014
    $101,000,000
28. 28
    No. 15

    Mark Rothko · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $98,400,000
29. 29
    Nurse

    Roy Lichtenstein · Christie's · Nov 9, 2015
    $95,365,000
30. 30
    Dora Maar au Chat

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · May 3, 2006
    $95,216,000
31. 31
    In This Case

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Christie's · May 11, 2021
    $93,100,000
32. 32
    Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel

    Sandro Botticelli · Sotheby's · Jan 21, 2021
    $92,200,000
33. 33
    Chop Suey

    Edward Hopper · Christie's · Nov 13, 2018
    $91,900,000
34. 34
    Rabbit

    Jeff Koons · Christie's · May 15, 2019
    $91,075,000
35. 35
    Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

    David Hockney · Christie's · Nov 15, 2018
    $90,300,000
36. 36
    Buffalo II

    Robert Rauschenberg · Christie's · May 15, 2019
    $88,800,000
37. 37
    Orange, Red, Yellow

    Mark Rothko · Christie's · May 8, 2012
    $86,882,500
38. 38
    Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau)

    Lucian Freud · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $86,300,000
39. 39
    Triptych, 1976

    Francis Bacon · Sotheby's · May 14, 2008
    $86,281,000
40. 40
    Blossoming Meadow

    Gustav Klimt · Sotheby's · Nov 18, 2025
    $86,000,000
41. 41
    Suprematist Composition

    Kazimir Malevich · Christie's · May 15, 2018
    $85,812,500
42. 42
    Brown and Blacks in Reds

    Mark Rothko · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $85,800,000
43. 43
    White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)

    Andy Warhol · Sotheby's · Nov 17, 2022
    $85,400,000
44. 44
    Untitled

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $85,000,000
45. 45
    Nymphéas en fleur

    Claude Monet · Christie's · May 8, 2018
    $84,687,500
46. 46
    Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus

    Francis Bacon · Sotheby's · Jun 30, 2020
    $84,550,000
47. 47
    Black Fire I

    Barnett Newman · Christie's · May 13, 2014
    $84,165,000
48. 48
    Portrait of Dr. Gachet

    Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · May 15, 1990
    $82,500,000
49. 49
    No. 10

    Mark Rothko · Christie's · May 13, 2015
    $81,925,000
50. 50
    Triple Elvis

    Andy Warhol · Christie's · Nov 12, 2014
    $81,925,000
51. 51
    Meule

    Claude Monet · Christie's · Nov 16, 2016
    $81,447,500
52. 52
    Laboureur dans un champ

    Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 13, 2017
    $81,312,500
53. 53
    Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards

    Francis Bacon · Christie's · May 13, 2014
    $80,805,000
54. 54
    Odalisque couchée aux magnolias

    Henri Matisse · Christie's · May 8, 2018
    $80,750,000
55. 55
    Le Bassin aux Nymphéas

    Claude Monet · Christie's · Jun 24, 2008
    $80,545,296
56. 56
    The Empire of Lights

    René Magritte · Sotheby's · Feb 3, 2022
    $79,450,000
57. 57
    Bal du moulin de la Galette

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Sotheby's · May 17, 1990
    $78,100,000
58. 58
    Massacre of the Innocents

    Peter Paul Rubens · Sotheby's · Jul 10, 2002
    $76,611,541
59. 59
    No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)

    Mark Rothko · Sotheby's · Nov 13, 2012
    $75,122,500
60. 60
    White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)

    Mark Rothko · Sotheby's · May 15, 2007
    $72,840,000
61. 61
    Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)

    Andy Warhol · Christie's · May 16, 2007
    $71,720,000
62. 62
    Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe

    Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 19, 1998
    $71,500,000
63. 63
    Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès

    Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 11, 2021
    $71,400,000
64. 64
    Tête

    Amedeo Modigliani · Sotheby's · Nov 4, 2014
    $70,700,000
65. 65
    Untitled (New York City)

    Cy Twombly · Sotheby's · Nov 11, 2015
    $70,530,000
66. 66
    Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)

    Claude Monet · Sotheby's · May 12, 2021
    $70,350,000
67. 67
    Portrait of George Dyer Talking

    Francis Bacon · Christie's · Feb 13, 2014
    $70,236,965
68. 68
    Contraste de formes

    Fernand Léger · Christie's · Nov 13, 2017
    $70,062,500
69. 69
    Four Marlons

    Andy Warhol · Christie's · Nov 12, 2014
    $69,605,000
70. 70
    Untitled

    Cy Twombly · Christie's · Nov 12, 2014
    $69,605,000
71. 71
    Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · Feb 28, 2018
    $69,200,000
72. 72
    Nude Sitting on a Divan

    Amedeo Modigliani · Sotheby's · Nov 2, 2010
    $68,962,500
73. 73
    Woman as Landscape

    Willem de Kooning · Christie's · Nov 13, 2018
    $68,900,000
74. 74
    Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half

    Ed Ruscha · Christie's · Nov 19, 2024
    $68,300,000
75. 75
    La Gommeuse

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · Nov 5, 2015
    $67,450,000
76. 76
    Buste de femme (Femme à la résille)

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 11, 2015
    $67,400,000
77. 77
    L’Allée des Alyscamps

    Vincent van Gogh · Sotheby's · May 5, 2015
    $66,330,000
78. 78
    Untitled XXV

    Willem de Kooning · Christie's · Nov 15, 2016
    $66,327,500
79. 79
    Untitled

    Mark Rothko · Christie's · May 13, 2014
    $66,245,000
80. 80
    Juin-Octobre 1985

    Zao Wou-ki · Sotheby's · Sep 30, 2018
    $65,225,413
81. 81
    Spring

    Edouard Manet · Christie's · Nov 5, 2014
    $65,125,000
82. 82
    1949-A-No. 1

    Clyfford Still · Sotheby's · Nov 9, 2011
    $61,682,500
83. 83
    Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier

    Paul Cézanne · Sotheby's · May 10, 1999
    $60,500,000
84. 84
    La Dormeuse

    Pablo Picasso · Phillips · Mar 8, 2018
    $58,117,036
85. 85
    La muse endormie

    Constantin Brancusi · Christie's · May 15, 2017
    $57,367,500
86. 86
    Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange)

    Mark Rothko · Phillips · May 15, 2014
    $56,165,000
87. 87
    Femme aux Bras Croisés

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · Nov 8, 2000
    $55,006,000
88. 88
    Irises

    Vincent van Gogh · Sotheby's · Nov 11, 1987
    $53,900,000
89. 89
    Portrait de Madame K

    Joan Miró · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $53,500,000
90. 90
    Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $52,700,000
91. 91
    Hurting the Word Radio #2

    Ed Ruscha · Christie's · Nov 13, 2019
    $52,485,000
92. 92
    Grand tête mince (Grand tête de Diego)

    Alberto Giacometti · Sotheby's · Nov 6, 2013
    $50,000,000
93. 93
    Femme assise dans un jardin

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · Nov 10, 1999
    $49,502,500
94. 94
    Tête de femme (Fernande)

    Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $48,300,000
95. 95
    Yo, Picasso

    Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · May 9, 1989
    $47,850,000
96. 96
    Untitled (ELMAR)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 14, 2024
    $46,479,000
97. 97
    Anxious Girl

    Roy Lichtenstein · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $46,000,000
98. 98
    Untitled

    Cy Twombly · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $45,400,000
99. 99
    Flexible

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $45,315,000
100. 100
     Femme assise, robe bleue

     Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 15, 2017
     $45,047,000

To cite this page: “Highest art auction prices recorded”, ArtSell, https://artsell.art/record-prices, accessed October 17, 2026. Prices are results published by the auction houses; each row links to its lot page and source.