Highest art auction prices in 2018

The top 50 sales of 2018 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
   Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)

   Amedeo Modigliani · Sotheby's · May 15, 2018
   $157,159,000
2. 2
   Young Girl with a Flower Basket

   Pablo Picasso · Christie's · May 8, 2018
   $115,000,000
3. 3
   Chop Suey

   Edward Hopper · Christie's · Nov 13, 2018
   $91,900,000
4. 4
   Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

   David Hockney · Christie's · Nov 15, 2018
   $90,300,000
5. 5
   Suprematist Composition

   Kazimir Malevich · Christie's · May 15, 2018
   $85,812,500
6. 6
   Nymphéas en fleur

   Claude Monet · Christie's · May 8, 2018
   $84,687,500
7. 7
   Odalisque couchée aux magnolias

   Henri Matisse · Christie's · May 8, 2018
   $80,750,000
8. 8
   Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)

   Pablo Picasso · Sotheby's · Feb 28, 2018
   $69,200,000
9. 9
   Woman as Landscape

   Willem de Kooning · Christie's · Nov 13, 2018
   $68,900,000
10. 10
    Juin-Octobre 1985

    Zao Wou-ki · Sotheby's · Sep 30, 2018
    $65,225,413
11. 11
    La Dormeuse

    Pablo Picasso · Phillips · Mar 8, 2018
    $58,117,036
12. 12
    Flexible

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $45,315,000
13. 13
    Femme dans la nuit

    Joan Miró · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $22,590,000
14. 14
    Nu allongé I (Aurore)

    Henri Matisse · Phillips · Mar 8, 2018
    $20,630,236
15. 15
    At Five in the Afternoon

    Robert Motherwell · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $12,690,000
16. 16
    Helter Skelter I

    Mark Bradford · Phillips · Mar 8, 2018
    $12,039,511
17. 17
    Ohne Titel (aus der Serie Das Floß der Medusa)

    Martin Kippenberger · Phillips · Jun 27, 2018
    $11,127,419
18. 18
    Gun

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $9,540,000
19. 19
    Untitled

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $9,000,000
20. 20
    04.01.79

    Zao Wou-ki · Phillips · May 27, 2018
    $8,903,780
21. 21
    Last Supper

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $8,232,500
22. 22
    Raccommodeuses de filets dans les dunes - Août 1882

    Vincent van Gogh · Artcurial · Jun 4, 2018
    $8,083,859
23. 23
    Untitled

    Rudolf Stingel · Phillips · Mar 8, 2018
    $7,978,441
24. 24
    Weiblicher Kopf in Blau und Grau (Die Ägypterin)

    Max Beckmann · Grisebach · May 31, 2018
    $6,469,547
25. 25
    Black Venus

    Mark Bradford · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $6,052,500
26. 26
    Untitled

    Rudolf Stingel · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $5,940,000
27. 27
    16 Flowers

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $5,377,500
28. 28
    5.11.62

    Zao Wou-ki · Ravenel · Jun 3, 2018
    $5,149,422
29. 29
    Bloodline: Big Family No.9

    Zhang Xiaogang · Phillips · May 27, 2018
    $4,888,475
30. 30
    Untitled

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $4,575,000
31. 31
    Untitled (Blanket Couple)

    Kerry James Marshall · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $4,335,000
32. 32
    Interior of a room

    Francis Bacon · Phillips · Jun 27, 2018
    $4,280,233
33. 33
    Black Blue Painting

    Mark Rothko · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $4,215,000
34. 34
    Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby

    Henry Moore · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $4,215,000
35. 35
    Champs

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Jun 27, 2018
    $4,201,189
36. 36
    Untitled 13

    Willem de Kooning · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $4,155,000
37. 37
    1.6.88

    Zao Wou-ki · Artcurial · Jun 4, 2018
    $4,129,781
38. 38
    Italienische Landschaft (Italian Landscape)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $4,095,000
39. 39
    Perch and Twirl

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Oct 5, 2018
    $4,083,658
40. 40
    Kali

    Tyeb Mehta · Saffronart · Jun 14, 2018
    $3,998,000
41. 41
    Untitled

    Juan Gris, 1887 Madrid – 1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine · Hampel Fine Art Auctions · Sep 26, 2018
    $3,343,871
42. 42
    Bird as Buddha

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Jun 27, 2018
    $3,331,705
43. 43
    Untitled (P271)

    Christopher Wool · Phillips · Oct 5, 2018
    $3,235,343
44. 44
    Two Marilyns

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $3,200,000
45. 45
    Concetto spaziale, Attese

    Lucio Fontana · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $3,015,000
46. 46
    Elogio del aire - The Praise of Air - Das Lob der Luft

    Eduardo Chillida · Kornfeld · Jun 15, 2018
    $3,005,400
47. 47
    24.09.99

    Zao Wou-ki · Ravenel · Dec 2, 2018
    $2,808,006
48. 48
    Figures schématiques

    Paul-Émile Borduas · Heffel Fine Art Auction House · May 30, 2018
    $2,775,447
49. 49
    Terra Incognita

    Kerry James Marshall · Phillips · Nov 15, 2018
    $2,775,000
50. 50
    Hours

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · May 17, 2018
    $2,775,000

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