Highest art auction prices in 2021

The top 50 sales of 2021 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
   Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)

   Pablo Picasso · Price guide · Christie's · May 13, 2021
   $103,400,000
2. 2
   In This Case

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Price guide · Christie's · May 11, 2021
   $93,100,000
3. 3
   Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel

   Sandro Botticelli · Sotheby's · Jan 21, 2021
   $92,200,000
4. 4
   Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès

   Vincent van Gogh · Price guide · Christie's · Nov 11, 2021
   $71,400,000
5. 5
   Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)

   Claude Monet · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 12, 2021
   $70,350,000
6. 6
   'Pope with Owls'

   Francis Bacon · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
   $33,000,000
7. 7
   Missing in Action

   Yoshitomo Nara · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 8, 2021
   $15,944,441
8. 8
   Kerzenschein (Candle-light)

   Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 30, 2021
   $13,077,653
9. 9
   Abstraktes Bild (940-7)

   Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 8, 2021
   $12,255,537
10. 10
    Untitled

    Joan Mitchell · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $11,870,000
11. 11
    A Neat Lawn

    David Hockney · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $11,000,000
12. 12
    Winding River

    Wayne Thiebaud · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $9,809,000
13. 13
    Untitled (The Door)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $8,549,500
14. 14
    Crab’s Claw Ginger Hawaii

    Georgia O'Keeffe · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $7,748,000
15. 15
    Untitled (Ocean)

    Vija Celmins · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $7,748,000
16. 16
    Unbuttoned button

    Domenico Gnoli · Price guide · Millon · Dec 2, 2021
    $7,483,740
17. 17
    The Last Supper/Be a Somebody with a Body

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $6,806,000
18. 18
    Untitled

    Cecily Brown · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $6,140,500
19. 19
    Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 Arhats

    Takashi Murakami · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $6,080,000
20. 20
    La féconde journée

    Jean Dubuffet · Price guide · Phillips · Apr 15, 2021
    $6,041,454
21. 21
    Weiß (White)

    Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $5,717,000
22. 22
    It’s Not Necessary

    David Hammons · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $5,475,000
23. 23
    Elements III

    Brice Marden · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $5,233,000
24. 24
    Abstraktes Bild (940-2)

    Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $5,112,000
25. 25
    In the Ladies' Enclosure

    Amrita Sher-Gil · Price guide · Saffronart · Jul 13, 2021
    $5,068,980
26. 26
    Panier de fruit

    Pierre Bonnard · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $4,991,000
27. 27
    Figure in a Night Landscape

    Matthew Wong · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 8, 2021
    $4,710,199
28. 28
    White Moon

    Alexander Calder · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $4,628,000
29. 29
    ‘Les Palmiers’ smoking room, from the residence of Mademoiselle Colette Aboucaya, Paris

    Jean Dunand · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 30, 2021
    $4,555,958
30. 30
    Bananas

    Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $4,300,000
31. 31
    Negerplastik

    Sigmar Polke · Price guide · Phillips · Oct 15, 2021
    $4,190,922
32. 32
    REPLICATOR

    Mad Dog Jones · Phillips · Apr 23, 2021
    $4,144,000
33. 33
    Untitled

    Avery Singer · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $4,144,000
34. 34
    Ohne Titel (Triptychon)

    Albert Oehlen · Price guide · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 10, 2021
    $4,058,280
35. 35
    European Ego Ideal

    Avery Singer · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $4,023,000
36. 36
    Untitled (Black Blue Painting)

    Mark Rothko · Price guide · Phillips · Apr 15, 2021
    $3,954,507
37. 37
    Scramble: Ascending Spectrum / Ascending Green Values

    Frank Stella · Price guide · Phillips · Apr 15, 2021
    $3,954,507
38. 38
    Welfare Queen

    Amy Sherald · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $3,902,000
39. 39
    Untitled

    Joan Mitchell · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $3,902,000
40. 40
    Important Dandelion lamp

    Tiffany Studios · Price guide · Rago Auctions · May 13, 2021
    $3,745,000
41. 41
    Untitled

    Mark Rothko · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $3,700,000
42. 42
    Untitled

    David Hammons · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $3,660,000
43. 43
    It Made Sense...Mostly In Her Mind

    Amy Sherald · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $3,539,000
44. 44
    No Title (Let him come...)

    Raymond Pettibon · Price guide · Phillips · Nov 17, 2021
    $3,418,000
45. 45
    Frauenkopf mit Blumen im Haar

    Alexej von Jawlensky · Price guide · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 10, 2021
    $3,274,807
46. 46
    Nature morte portugaise

    Robert Delaunay · Price guide · Kornfeld · Sep 17, 2021
    $3,233,100
47. 47
    Pot à gingembre avec fruits et nappe

    Paul Cézanne · Price guide · Kornfeld · Sep 17, 2021
    $3,233,100
48. 48
    Laugh Now Panel A

    Banksy · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 8, 2021
    $3,150,872
49. 49
    Meer (I)

    Emil Nolde · Price guide · Grisebach · Dec 2, 2021
    $3,140,903
50. 50
    East Hampton V

    Willem de Kooning · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 23, 2021
    $3,055,000

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