Highest art auction prices in 2020

The top 50 sales of 2020 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
   Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus

   Francis Bacon · Sotheby's · Jun 30, 2020
   $84,550,000
2. 2
   Nichols Canyon

   David Hockney · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
   $41,067,500
3. 3
   PH-407

   Clyfford Still · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
   $18,442,500
4. 4
   Hothouse Doll

   Yoshitomo Nara · Phillips · Dec 3, 2020
   $13,302,866
5. 5
   Portrait of A-One A.K.A. King

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
   $11,500,000
6. 6
   Untitled

   Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
   $11,297,500
7. 7
   Noël

   Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Jul 2, 2020
   $11,062,500
8. 8
   Victor 25448

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Jul 2, 2020
   $9,250,000
9. 9
   Ancient Scientist

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Dec 3, 2020
   $7,525,153
10. 10
    22.6.63

    Zao Wou-ki · Phillips · Jul 8, 2020
    $7,007,619
11. 11
    Das letzte Selbstbildnis I

    Georg Baselitz · Phillips · Oct 20, 2020
    $6,444,164
12. 12
    24.10.63

    Zao Wou-ki · Phillips · Jul 8, 2020
    $5,982,476
13. 13
    A Girl Blowing on a Brazier (La Fillette au braisier)

    Georges de La Tour · Lempertz · Dec 8, 2020
    $5,257,476
14. 14
    River at Dusk

    Matthew Wong · Phillips · Dec 3, 2020
    $4,871,418
15. 15
    Untitled

    Vasudeo S. Gaitonde · Saffronart · Sep 17, 2020
    $4,820,900
16. 16
    God Knows Where

    Ed Ruscha · Phillips · Feb 13, 2020
    $4,398,975
17. 17
    Transparent Female Forms

    George Condo · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $4,265,000
18. 18
    Abstraktes Bild (678-1)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $4,265,000
19. 19
    The Bathers

    Amy Sherald · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $4,265,000
20. 20
    Untitled

    Keith Haring · Phillips · Feb 13, 2020
    $4,178,700
21. 21
    Abstraktes Bild (682-4)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · Dec 3, 2020
    $4,168,958
22. 22
    Divertimento II

    František Kupka · Galerie Kodl · Nov 29, 2020
    $4,104,115
23. 23
    Untitled

    Yoshitomo Nara · Phillips · Dec 3, 2020
    $3,778,703
24. 24
    Off White Square

    Helen Frankenthaler · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $3,720,500
25. 25
    Abstraktes Bild (801-3)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · Jul 2, 2020
    $3,680,000
26. 26
    Choir of Angels (Red)

    Liu Ye · Phillips · Jul 8, 2020
    $3,580,583
27. 27
    Untitled

    Donald Judd · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $3,539,000
28. 28
    Untitled (S.045, Hanging Five-Lobed, Multilayered Continuous Form within a Form, with Spheres in the First, Second and Third Lobes)

    Ruth Asawa · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $3,539,000
29. 29
    Le Choeur des Sphinges

    René Magritte · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $3,115,500
30. 30
    Head of the Meadow

    Helen Frankenthaler · Phillips · Jul 2, 2020
    $3,020,000
31. 31
    Christiane und Kerstin

    Gerhard Richter · Ketterer Kunst · Jul 17, 2020
    $2,908,426
32. 32
    Untitled (Pestus)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Oct 20, 2020
    $2,845,467
33. 33
    The Age of Reason

    George Condo · Phillips · Oct 20, 2020
    $2,692,711
34. 34
    Untitled

    Agnes Martin · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,450,000
35. 35
    Carpe (Très Grande)

    François-Xavier Lalanne · Bonhams · Dec 17, 2020
    $2,430,313
36. 36
    Dot + Loop

    Alexander Calder · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,329,000
37. 37
    Untitled (Woman's Face covered by a Rose)

    René Magritte · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,329,000
38. 38
    T1934-2

    Hans Hartung · Artcurial · Dec 8, 2020
    $2,264,107
39. 39
    Untitled (Grace Jones Mask)

    Keith Haring · Phillips · Oct 20, 2020
    $2,219,606
40. 40
    Your Puppy

    Yoshitomo Nara · Ravenel · Jul 19, 2020
    $2,175,666
41. 41
    Deux personnages

    Pablo Picasso · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,147,500
42. 42
    Going To The Pictures

    Russell Drysdale · Deutscher and Hackett · Nov 11, 2020
    $2,142,964
43. 43
    Forstarbeiter

    Georg Baselitz · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,087,000
44. 44
    The Peephole

    Norman Rockwell · Phillips · Dec 7, 2020
    $2,087,000
45. 45
    Flowers

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · Oct 20, 2020
    $2,063,141
46. 46
    Un philosophe : l'heureux géomètre

    Jusepe de Ribera · Daguerre · Jun 16, 2020
    $2,058,056
47. 47
    Monkey Poison

    Banksy · Phillips · Jul 2, 2020
    $2,000,000
48. 48
    Unser Haus

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 11, 2020
    $1,994,892
49. 49
    Hummock In Landscape

    Fred Williams · Deutscher and Hackett · Jul 15, 2020
    $1,982,655
50. 50
    Mary in Prayer

    Quinten Massys · Lempertz · Dec 8, 2020
    $1,914,012

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