Highest art auction prices in 2022

The top 50 sales of 2022 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
   Shot Sage Blue Marilyn

   Andy Warhol · Christie's · May 9, 2022
   $195,000,000
2. 2
   Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)

   Georges Seurat · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $149,240,000
3. 3
   La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

   Paul Cézanne · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $137,700,000
4. 4
   Verger avec cyprès

   Vincent van Gogh · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $117,100,000
5. 5
   Maternité II

   Paul Gauguin · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $105,700,000
6. 6
   Birch Forest

   Gustav Klimt · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $104,500,000
7. 7
   Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau)

   Lucian Freud · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
   $86,300,000
8. 8
   White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)

   Andy Warhol · Sotheby's · Nov 17, 2022
   $85,400,000
9. 9
   Untitled

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · May 18, 2022
   $85,000,000
10. 10
    The Empire of Lights

    René Magritte · Sotheby's · Feb 3, 2022
    $79,450,000
11. 11
    Untitled

    Cy Twombly · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $41,640,000
12. 12
    Concarneau, calme du matin (Opus no. 219, larghetto)

    Paul Signac · Christie's · Nov 9, 2022
    $39,320,000
13. 13
    Le panier de fraises des bois

    Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin · Artcurial · Mar 23, 2022
    $26,782,968
14. 14
    Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa

    Max Beckmann · Grisebach · Dec 1, 2022
    $24,279,415
15. 15
    Relief Éponge bleu sans titre (RE 49)

    Yves Klein · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $19,999,500
16. 16
    39=50

    Alexander Calder · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $15,648,500
17. 17
    Le Violon d'Ingres

    Man Ray · Christie's · May 14, 2022
    $12,400,000
18. 18
    The Flatiron

    Edward Steichen · Christie's · Nov 10, 2022
    $11,800,000
19. 19
    Abstraktes Bild (774-1)

    Gerhard Richter · Phillips · Dec 1, 2022
    $11,482,006
20. 20
    Nude

    Roy Lichtenstein · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $10,267,000
21. 21
    Figures et plante

    Pablo Picasso · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $10,267,000
22. 22
    Untitled (Circus No. 12 Face 44.30)

    Mark Grotjahn · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $9,809,000
23. 23
    The Star (Greta Garbo as Mata Hari)

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $9,580,000
24. 24
    Flowers

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $9,351,000
25. 25
    Untitled

    Mark Rothko · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $8,435,000
26. 26
    To Repel Ghosts

    Jean-Michel Basquiat · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $7,862,500
27. 27
    Le Père

    Marc Chagall · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $7,404,500
28. 28
    Self-Portrait on the Terrace

    David Hockney · Phillips · Mar 3, 2022
    $6,506,511
29. 29
    Grande femme assise

    Alberto Giacometti · Kornfeld · Jun 17, 2022
    $6,018,660
30. 30
    Angie

    Cecily Brown · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $5,959,000
31. 31
    Untitled (Bull on Rickshaw)

    Tyeb Mehta · Saffronart · Apr 6, 2022
    $5,596,000
32. 32
    Old Prague Motif

    Bohumil Kubišta · Galerie Kodl · May 29, 2022
    $5,365,476
33. 33
    Das blaue Mädchen in der Sonne

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 9, 2022
    $5,015,525
34. 34
    Untitled

    Willem de Kooning · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $4,870,000
35. 35
    He Barked Just Like a Watchdog

    Mark Bradford · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $4,870,000
36. 36
    Transparent Female Forms

    George Condo · Phillips · Jun 22, 2022
    $4,656,105
37. 37
    Tsunemasa (next to Kaija)

    Julie Mehretu · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $4,386,000
38. 38
    Lesende (Else Lasker-Schüler)

    Karl Schmidt-Rottluff · Ketterer Kunst · Dec 9, 2022
    $4,286,954
39. 39
    Le météore

    René Magritte · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $4,265,000
40. 40
    When Time Ran Out

    Cecily Brown · Phillips · Mar 3, 2022
    $4,239,770
41. 41
    Petite croix

    Alexander Calder · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $4,023,000
42. 42
    Snow White in the Wrong Story

    Marlene Dumas · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $3,781,000
43. 43
    Multicolored Retrospective (Reversal Series)

    Andy Warhol · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $3,748,750
44. 44
    Mutter und Kind auf blumenübersäter Wiese

    Cuno Amiet · Kornfeld · Jun 17, 2022
    $3,424,410
45. 45
    Cobalt

    Joan Mitchell · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $3,418,000
46. 46
    Sacco e Rosso

    Alberto Burri · Phillips · Oct 14, 2022
    $3,410,762
47. 47
    Untitled

    Cy Twombly · Phillips · Jun 30, 2022
    $3,249,050
48. 48
    Mouth #14 (Marilyn)

    Tom Wesselmann · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $3,236,500
49. 49
    Day 1

    Matthew Wong · Phillips · May 18, 2022
    $3,176,000
50. 50
    Event in a Barn

    Willem de Kooning · Phillips · Nov 15, 2022
    $3,055,000

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