Art auction market report: October 2024
In October 2024, ArtSell recorded 13,303 auction lots from 47 auction houses, of which 10,200 sold (77% sell-through). The 10,020 sales with a published price total $93,652,936, with a median of $1,512 (USD at the sale-date rate). The top sale was David Hockney, “Path Through Wheat Field, July”, at $4,330,385 (Phillips). 15 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top sales
Top American artists
Ranked by total of priced sales in the month; region from the artist’s recorded nationality.
| # | Artist | Total sold | Priced sales | Top result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Warhol American | $5,964,724 | 67 | Portrait of Princess Diana — $1,643,325 |
| 2 | Kaws American | $1,781,838 | 10 | UNTITLED — $995,705 |
| 3 | Roy Lichtenstein American | $879,253 | 26 | Two Nudes, from Nudes Series (C. 284) — $292,100 |
| 4 | Elizabeth Peyton American | $571,680 | 2 | Torino (Tony) Sept. 99 — $564,060 |
| 5 | Richard Artschwager American | $542,964 | 4 | Portrait I — $234,136 |
| 6 | Keith Haring American | $512,624 | 13 | Untitled (Two Dancing Figures) — $215,736 |
| 7 | Richard Prince American | $501,581 | 12 | Untitled (Cowboys) — $315,307 |
| 8 | Gertrude Abercrombie American | $412,020 | 5 | Lonely Table — $126,000 |
| 9 | Gregory Crewdson American | $409,218 | 22 | Untitled — $76,200 |
| 10 | Claes Oldenburg American | $404,137 | 3 | "Ghost Wardrobe for M. M." — $380,472 |
Top European artists
| # | Artist | Total sold | Priced sales | Top result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Hockney British | $4,433,996 | 16 | Path Through Wheat Field, July — $4,330,385 |
| 2 | Damien Hirst British | $2,757,415 | 60 | Omnipotence — $580,650 |
| 3 | Banksy British | $1,547,821 | 14 | Untitled (Fuck the Police) — $829,501 |
| 4 | Tracey Emin British | $1,358,038 | 6 | This is life without you - You made me Feel like This — $1,161,301 |
| 5 | Lucio Fontana Italian | $1,166,741 | 2 | Concetto spaziale, Attese — $1,161,301 |
| 6 | Anselm Kiefer German | $912,527 | 2 | für Paul Celan - Buch — $663,600 |
| 7 | Jacek Malczewski Polish | $841,493 | 4 | Tobiasz z aniołem — $304,704 |
| 8 | Andrzej Wróblewski Polish | $837,936 | 1 | Niebo nad miastem/ Kompozycja abstrakcyjna — $837,936 |
| 9 | Andreas Gursky German | $816,964 | 4 | New York, Mercantile Exchange — $796,320 |
| 10 | René Lalique French | $779,499 | 140 | GRENOUILLE SIX GUIRLANDES DE GRAINES COVERED VASE, CP307 — $91,211 |
New artist records
The artist’s best price this month exceeded every earlier priced result for them in the ArtSell database (artists with at least three earlier priced results).
Auction houses this month
Phillips (1,124)Bonhams (1,100)Lyon & Turnbull (1,071)Rago Auctions (1,056)Strauss & Co (709)Toomey & Co. (534)Sworders (517)Artmark (465)Wright (458)Twents Veilinghuis (378)Van Ham (369)León Gallery (366)Pandolfini (358)Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) (338)Rachel Davis Fine Arts (331)Whyte's (304)Maison Bibelot (273)Capitolium Art (262)Morton Subastas (245)DuMouchelles (243)Pananti (243)Davidson Auctions (222)Brunk Auctions (213)Sloans & Kenyon (179)Agra-Art (175)Morgan O'Driscoll (170)Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny (157)Austin Auction Gallery (155)deVeres (147)Helmuth Stone Gallery (121)Olympia Auctions (114)Arthouse Hejtmánek (108)Bertolami Fine Art (95)Clarke Auction Gallery (90)Toovey's (86)Barridoff Auctions (83)Anderson & Garland (82)Leonard Joel (79)Polswiss Art (74)Lempertz (64)Palm Beach Modern Auctions (63)Michaan's Auctions (33)Billings (13)Hessink's Auctions (12)Bogotá Auctions (12)Elstob & Elstob (11)Vogt Auction (1)