Highest art auction prices in 2026

The top 50 sales of 2026 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
   Number 7A

   Jackson Pollock · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $181,200,000
2. 2
   Danaïde

   Constantin Brancusi · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $107,600,000
3. 3
   No. 15

   Mark Rothko · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $98,400,000
4. 4
   Brown and Blacks in Reds

   Mark Rothko · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
   $85,800,000
5. 5
   Portrait de Madame K

   Joan Miró · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $53,500,000
6. 6
   Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)

   Jean-Michel Basquiat · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
   $52,700,000
7. 7
   Tête de femme (Fernande)

   Pablo Picasso · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $48,300,000
8. 8
   Anxious Girl

   Roy Lichtenstein · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $46,000,000
9. 9
   Untitled

   Cy Twombly · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
   $45,400,000
10. 10
    Homme à la guitare

    Pablo Picasso · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $40,800,000
11. 11
    Composition with Large Red Plane, Blue, Gray, Black and Yellow

    Piet Mondrian · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $39,700,000
12. 12
    Robe noire et robe violette

    Henri Matisse · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $34,500,000
13. 13
    La moisson en Provence

    Vincent van Gogh · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 19, 2026
    $29,430,000
14. 14
    Gray Target

    Jasper Johns · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $28,800,000
15. 15
    La femme aux lilas (portrait de Nini Lopez)

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $28,200,000
16. 16
    Double Elvis (Ferus Type)

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $27,000,000
17. 17
    Untitled III

    Willem de Kooning · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $26,000,000
18. 18
    Do it Yourself (Violin)

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $25,900,000
19. 19
    Brigitte Bardot

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $24,800,000
20. 20
    Concetto Spaziale, Il Cielo di Venezia

    Lucio Fontana · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $16,400,000
21. 21
    Sixteen Jackies

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $16,225,000
22. 22
    Harleman

    Franz Kline · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $14,400,000
23. 23
    Half Face with Collar

    Roy Lichtenstein · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $12,900,000
24. 24
    Untitled XLII

    Willem de Kooning · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $12,400,000
25. 25
    Untitled

    Willem de Kooning · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $10,800,000
26. 26
    La Route de Vétheuil, effet de neige

    Claude Monet · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $9,290,000
27. 27
    The Desert

    Agnes Martin · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $9,200,000
28. 28
    Untitled

    Jackson Pollock · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $9,168,000
29. 29
    Besen

    Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $8,070,000
30. 30
    Mathis

    Gerhard Richter · Price guide · Phillips · Oct 15, 2026
    $7,734,923
31. 31
    Chair de poule rhinocérontique

    Salvador Dalí · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $7,270,000
32. 32
    Cape Orange

    Helen Frankenthaler · Price guide · Sotheby's · May 15, 2026
    $7,200,000
33. 33
    Plain

    Joan Mitchell · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $6,850,000
34. 34
    The Red Girl

    Maqbool Fida Husain · Price guide · Pundole's · Sep 24, 2026
    $6,773,000
35. 35
    Villa Seeburg am Staffelsee

    Wassily Kandinsky · Price guide · Ketterer Kunst · Jun 12, 2026
    $6,361,850
36. 36
    Tänzerinnen–Brunnen

    Georg Kolbe · Price guide · Grisebach · Jun 4, 2026
    $5,796,720
37. 37
    Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia)

    Alice Neel · Price guide · Christie's · May 18, 2026
    $5,700,000
38. 38
    4 Colored Marilyns (Reversal Series)

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $5,630,000
39. 39
    ...Words Mean Nothing at All

    Yoshitomo Nara · Price guide · Bonhams · May 20, 2026
    $4,900,500
40. 40
    Self-Portrait

    Andy Warhol · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $4,776,000
41. 41
    Untitled

    Lee Bontecou · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $4,227,000
42. 42
    Coastal Boats Near Sidney, BC

    E. J. Hughes · Price guide · Heffel Fine Art Auction House · May 21, 2026
    $4,140,305
43. 43
    Untitled #1

    Agnes Martin · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $4,044,000
44. 44
    Bambini, 1998-1999 (83 figury dziecięce)

    Magdalena Abakanowicz · Price guide · Polswiss Art · Jun 2, 2026
    $3,686,340
45. 45
    Interior with Windsor Chair at Strandgade 25 (Interiør med windsorstol. Strandgade 25)

    Vilhelm Hammershøi · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $3,495,000
46. 46
    The Only One with Waves

    David Hockney · Price guide · Phillips · Jun 26, 2026
    $3,202,721
47. 47
    Impossible

    Maria Martins · Rago Auctions · May 14, 2026
    $3,170,000
48. 48
    La Muse endormie II

    Constantin Brancusi · Price guide · Bonhams · May 20, 2026
    $3,085,500
49. 49
    Femme debout (Poseuse I)

    Alberto Giacometti · Price guide · Phillips · May 19, 2026
    $3,068,000
50. 50
    Tic-Tac Rosso

    Piero Dorazio · Price guide · Ketterer Kunst · Jun 12, 2026
    $2,984,286

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