List of most expensive artworks by living artists

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The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($119 million in 2021 dollars).[1]:{{{3}}}

All-time

This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale.

Adjusted price

(in millions of USD)

 Original price

(in millions of USD)

 Work Artist Date Venue Ref.
119 110 Flag Jasper Johns 2010 Private sale [1]
91 91.1 Rabbit Jeff Koons May 2019 Christie's [2][3]
90 90.3 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) David Hockney November 2018 Christie's [4]
94 80 False Start Jasper Johns October 2006 Private sale [5]
62 62 The Journey of Humanity Sacha Jafri March 2021 Humanity Inspired Royal Charity Auction, Dubai[note 1] [6][7]
59 58.4 Balloon Dog (Orange) Jeff Koons November 2013 Christie's [8]

Progressive auction sales records

This is a list of progressive records of the highest price ever paid at auction for the work of an artist who was living at time of sale. As a progressive record listing, it only lists auctions records that topple the previous best. The current record price is US$91 million for Jeff Koons's 1986 sculpture, Rabbit, set in 2019. The current record price for a painting is $90 million for David Hockney's 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), set the prior year.

Adjusted price

(in millions of USD)

 Original price

(in millions of USD)

 Work Artist Date Auction

house

 Ref.
91.82 91.1 Rabbit Jeff Koons May 2019 Christie's [2][3]
92.48 90.3 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) David Hockney November 2018 Christie's [4]
64.68 58.4 Balloon Dog (Orange) Jeff Koons November 2013 Christie's [8]
41.11 37.1 Domplatz, Mailand Gerhard Richter May 2013 Sotheby's [9]
38.16 34.2 Abstraktes Bild (809-4) (1994) Gerhard Richter October 2012 Sotheby's [10]
40.03 33.6 Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Lucian Freud May 2008 Christie's [11]
28.98 23.6 Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) Jeff Koons November 2007 Sotheby's [12]
23.91 19.3 Lullaby Spring Damien Hirst June 2007 Sotheby's [13]
36.48 17 False Start Jasper Johns November 1988 Sotheby's [14]
15.02 7 White Flag Jasper Johns November 1988 Christie's [15]
9.18 4.18 Diver Jasper Johns May 1988 Christie's [16]
8.28 3.63 (tied) Pink Lady Willem de Kooning May 1987 Sotheby's [17]
8.49 3.63 (tied) Out the Window Jasper Johns November 1986 Sotheby's [18]
3.23 1.2 Two Women Willem de Kooning May 1982 Christie's [19]
2.19 0.8 L'Enigme du Desir/Ma Mere, Ma Mere, Ma Mere Salvador Dalí March 1982 Christie's [20]
4.13 0.53 Mother and Child Pablo Picasso April 1967 Sotheby's [21][22]
1.88 0.22 Death of Harlequin/Woman in a Garden Pablo Picasso 1962 Sotheby's [23][24]
1.34 0.15 (tied) La Belle Hollandaise Pablo Picasso May 1959 Sotheby's [25][26]
1.34 0.15 (tied) Mother and Child Pablo Picasso November 1958 Sotheby's [27]
0.066 Friedland, 1807 Ernest Meissonier March 1887 Stewart estate sale [28][29]
0.045 Les Communiantes Jules Breton May 1886 Mary J. Morgan estate sale [30][31]

Private sales

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See also

References

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  6. ↑ British artist sells world's largest painting The Journey of Humanity for $62m, The Guardian, March 22, 2021
  7. ↑ Sophie Prideaux, World's largest painting created in Dubai by Sacha Jafri sells for record-breaking $62 million, The National, March 23, 2021
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  26. ↑ "Auction Records Broken in London: A Picasso Sold for £55, 000." Illustrated London News, May 16, 1959, p. 835. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "... at Sotheby's on May 6, an early Picasso nude... was sold ... for £55,000, the highest price ever paid in an auction room for the work of a living artist. Prior to this the record had been held by another Picasso, a Mother and Child, which was sold last November in New York for £54,000.
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  30. ↑ Lettres, sciences, arts: Encyclopédie universelle du XXe siècle. 1908. 3: 85. "... les Communiantes (Salon de 1884): 227,500 fr. C'est l'enchère la plus considèrable qui ait été atteinte jusqu'alors par un tableau d'artiste vivant"
  31. ↑ Methodist Magazine. January 1901. p. 81: "For the painting of 'The First Communion,' by Breton, [Lord Strathcona] paid the sum of $45,000, the highest price, it is said, ever paid for a modern picture sold at auction."
  32. ↑ Carol Vogel, Works by Johns and de Kooning Sell for $143.5 Million, The New York Times, October 12, 2006
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  36. ↑ LIFE Dec 27, 1968, p. 120. "Picasso's top price—in fact, the top price in history for the work of a living artist—was set in Basel, Switzerland, where citizens raised $1,950,000 to buy Two Brothers, 1905, and Seated Harlequin, 1923, for their museum."
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  1. ↑ The auction was organized in partnership with UNICEF, UNESCO, Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates, and the Global Gift Foundation.
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