Highest art auction prices in 2017

The top 50 sales of 2017 in the ArtSell database, ranked by price in US dollars at the sale-date exchange rate. See the all-time top 100 and the most valuable artists.

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1. 1
   Salvator Mundi

   Leonardo da Vinci · Christie's · Nov 15, 2017
   $450,312,500
2. 2
   Untitled

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Sotheby's · May 18, 2017
   $110,500,000
3. 3
   Laboureur dans un champ

   Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 13, 2017
   $81,312,500
4. 4
   Contraste de formes

   Fernand Léger · Christie's · Nov 13, 2017
   $70,062,500
5. 5
   La muse endormie

   Constantin Brancusi · Christie's · May 15, 2017
   $57,367,500
6. 6
   Femme assise, robe bleue

   Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 15, 2017
   $45,047,000
7. 7
   Femme assise dans un fauteuil

   Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 15, 2017
   $30,487,500
8. 8
   Rosedale

   Peter Doig · Phillips · May 18, 2017
   $28,810,000
9. 9
   Les Amoureux

   Marc Chagall · Sotheby's · Nov 14, 2017
   $28,453,000
10. 10
    Red House

    Peter Doig · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $21,127,500
11. 11
    Les trois cierges

    Marc Chagall · Christie's · May 15, 2017
    $14,583,500
12. 12
    Untitled II

    Willem de Kooning · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $13,130,000
13. 13
    Woman: Sunlight, Moonlight

    Roy Lichtenstein · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $10,330,000
14. 14
    Sawyer

    Franz Kline · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $9,990,000
15. 15
    Vase of Chrysanthemums with Red Ground

    Sanyu · Ravenel · Jun 4, 2017
    $9,375,341
16. 16
    Portrait de femme endormie. III

    Pablo Picasso · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $9,315,000
17. 17
    Untitled

    Cy Twombly · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $7,515,000
18. 18
    Tête d'une jeune femme Tahitienne avec un deuxième portrait sur sa droite - Portrait de Teha'amana

    Paul Gauguin · Kornfeld · Jun 16, 2017
    $7,386,480
19. 19
    Untitled

    Rudolf Stingel · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $6,390,000
20. 20
    Vent du nord

    Jean Paul Riopelle · Heffel Fine Art Auction House · May 24, 2017
    $5,510,775
21. 21
    The Void

    Damien Hirst · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $5,250,000
22. 22
    Jeune fille dormant à la blouse roumaine

    Henri Matisse · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $4,815,000
23. 23
    Tänzerin

    Sigmar Polke · Phillips · Oct 6, 2017
    $4,404,968
24. 24
    Untitled (Halloween)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $4,215,000
25. 25
    Colorfields

    Marlene Dumas · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $4,170,000
26. 26
    Andromède

    Auguste Rodin · Artcurial · May 30, 2017
    $3,994,906
27. 27
    Untitled #1

    Agnes Martin · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $3,946,000
28. 28
    Untitled (S134)

    Christopher Wool · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,735,000
29. 29
    Untitled

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,615,000
30. 30
    De gele vingers van de kunstenaar [The yellow fingers of the artist]

    Marlene Dumas · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,615,000
31. 31
    Untitled

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $3,610,000
32. 32
    Muletero

    Miquel Barceló · Phillips · Mar 8, 2017
    $3,588,343
33. 33
    Untitled (Plan B)

    Rudolf Stingel · Phillips · Mar 8, 2017
    $3,588,343
34. 34
    Knives

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · Oct 6, 2017
    $3,463,568
35. 35
    Großer Geist Nr. 9

    Thomas Schütte · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,375,000
36. 36
    Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

    Ai Weiwei · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $3,370,000
37. 37
    Auktion 401, Los 289

    Günther Uecker · Van Ham · Nov 29, 2017
    $3,268,581
38. 38
    Mystery Nurse

    Richard Prince · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,255,000
39. 39
    Dark Blue Relief

    Ellsworth Kelly · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $3,105,000
40. 40
    Abstraktes Bild (682-4)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · Jun 29, 2017
    $3,098,772
41. 41
    Untitled

    Keith Haring · Phillips · Jun 29, 2017
    $3,026,134
42. 42
    Untitled

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Nov 16, 2017
    $3,015,000
43. 43
    Drag Her to the Path

    Mark Bradford · Phillips · Jun 29, 2017
    $2,953,497
44. 44
    Abyss

    Albert Oehlen · Phillips · Jun 29, 2017
    $2,808,222
45. 45
    Last Warrior / The Unknown Soldier

    Yoshitomo Nara · Phillips · May 28, 2017
    $2,781,978
46. 46
    The Collector 4

    Adrian Ghenie · Phillips · Oct 6, 2017
    $2,679,068
47. 47
    Scheiben und Halbscheiben

    Ernst Wilhelm Nay · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 9, 2017
    $2,636,079
48. 48
    Unique and large conic chandelier with four small cones, from the Tériade apartment, Paris

    Alberto Giacometti · Phillips · Apr 26, 2017
    $2,623,735
49. 49
    Untitled (Venus 2000 B.C.)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $2,590,000
50. 50
    Two Red Petals in the Air

    Alexander Calder · Phillips · May 18, 2017
    $2,410,000

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