Highest-priced artists by maximum sales price
Sold for: $450,312,500
1452 - 1519 • Italy, France
Religious and portrait painting, sculpture, architecture, design, geology
Sold for: $236,360,000
1862 - 1918 • Austria, Germany
Abstract portrait, figure, mural painting
Sold for: $195,040,000
1928 - 1987 • New York, Pennsylvania
Pop-modernist multi-images, silk screen
Sold for: $179,365,000
1881 - 1973 • Spain, France
Cubist painting and printmaking
Sold for: $170,405,000
1884 - 1920 • Italy, France
Elongated female figure painting
Sold for: $149,240,000
1859 - 1891 • France
Neo impressionist painting-figure and landscape
Sold for: $142,405,000
1909 - 1992 • England, Ireland, Spain
Surreal, cubist portrait, still life and figure painting, furniture design
Sold for: $141,285,000
1901 - 1966 • Switzerland, France
Surreal elongated figural sculpture, painting
Sold for: $137,790,000
1839 - 1906 • France
Modernist landscape, still life and figure painting
Sold for: $126,369,795
1864 - 1957 • China
Floral, animal, sea creatures, and landscape motif painting
Sold for: $121,160,000
1898 - 1967 • Germany, Belgium
Surrealist painting-figure, landscape
Sold for: $119,922,500
1863 - 1944 • Norway
Expressionist figure and landscape painting, printmaking
Sold for: $117,180,000
1853 - 1890 • Belgium, France
Portrait, self-portrait, still life, sunflower, landscape painting
Sold for: $110,747,000
1840 - 1926 • France
Impressionist landscape painting
Sold for: $110,487,500
1960 - 1988 • New York
Street-graffiti, naive figure painting, drawing
Sold for: $107,585,000
1876 - 1957 • Romania, France
Abstract marble sculpture
Sold for: $105,730,000
1848 - 1903 • France, Tahiti
Post-Impressionist paintings, drawings, portraits
Sold for: $98,385,000
1903 - 1970 • New York / Ukraine, Russian Federation
Abstract expressionist painter, early surreal
Sold for: $95,365,000
1923 - 1997 • New York
Pop imagery cartoon painting
Sold for: $92,184,000
c.1445 - 1510 • Italy
Renaissance painting, Greek mythology figures
Sold for: $91,875,000
1882 - 1967 • New York, Massachusetts
Town-landscape, genre and figure painting
Sold for: $91,075,000
Born 1955 • New York
Factory product pop art sculpture
Sold for: $90,312,500
Born 1937 • New York, California / England
Pop art painting, printmaking, digital, design and photography
Sold for: $88,805,000
1925 - 2008 • New York, Florida
Assemblage, non objective painting, set design
Sold for: $86,265,000
1922 - 2011 • England, Germany
Nude figurative painting
Sold for: $85,812,500
1878 - 1935 • Russian Federation
Supremartist style art, non objective, teaching
Sold for: $84,165,000
1905 - 1970 • New York
Abstract expression, vertical sculpture
Sold for: $80,750,000
1869 - 1954 • France
Fauve modernist painting; sculpture
Sold for: $78,100,000
1841 - 1919 • France
Impressionist and post impressionist figure and landscape painting
Sold for: $76,695,700
1577 - 1640 • Flemish, Belgium, Germany
Counter reformation religious painting
Sold for: $76,549,965
circa 1573 - 1620 • China
Ming Dynasty landscape and portrait painting
Sold for: $70,530,000
1928 - 2011 • Virginia, New York / Italy
Improvisational line drawing, minimalism
Sold for: $70,062,500
1881 - 1955 • Connecticut, California / France
Cubist painting-objects, machinery and figures, teaching
Sold for: $69,346,250
Born 1981 • Wisconsin
NFT non fungible digital art, graphic design, animation
Sold for: $68,937,500
1904 - 1997 • New York / Netherlands, Germany
Abstract expressionist painting, figurative
Sold for: $68,260,000
Born 1937 • Nebraska, California
Pop-word modeling illusions
Sold for: $65,194,790
1921 - 2013 • New York / China, France
Non objective and abstract landscape painting, sculpture
Sold for: $65,125,000
1832 - 1883 • France
Post-impressionist painting-female figure
Sold for: $62,065,500
1308 - 1385 • China
Landscape painting, heavy texture
Sold for: $61,682,500
1904 - 1980 • Maryland, New York, North Dakota
Abstract expressionist and modernist figure painting
Sold for: $61,161,000
1912 - 1956 • New York, Wyoming
Gestural painting, abstract expressionism
Sold for: $59,266,625
1037 - 1101 • China
Painting
Sold for: $56,830,045
1887 - 1927 • France, Spain
Cubist still life painting, graphics
Sold for: $56,713,470
1880 - 1916 • Germany, Austria
Abstract painting-landscape, animals
Sold for: $55,350,000
Born 1930 • New York
Modernist flags, pop symbol painting, sculpture
Sold for: $54,660,000
1907 - 1954 • New York / Mexico
Abstract painting-female themes
Sold for: $53,535,000
1893 - 1983 • Spain, France
Abstract curvilinear design painting, collage, mural
Sold for: $53,030,000
1848 - 1894 • France
Impressionist portrait and landscape painting
Sold for: $51,000,000
1872 - 1944 • New York / Netherlands, France, Holland
Abstract, non-objective and grid painting
Sold for: $50,587,350
1864 - 1955 • China
Scroll painting of ancestral home region, mountain and skyscape scenes, calligraphy