Top 100 Fine Art and NFT works sold at auction in 2022

 Artist  Work  Price  Date  Auction House  Record
1 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Shot sage blue Marilyn (1964) $195,040,000 05/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
2 Georges SEURAT (1859-1891) Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) (1888) $149,240,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
3 Paul CÉZANNE (1839-1906) La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1888-1890) $137,790,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
4 Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Verger avec cyprès (1888) $117,180,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
5 Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903) Maternité II (1899) $105,730,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
6 Gustav KLIMT (1862-1918) Birch Forest (1903) $104,585,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
7 Lucian FREUD (1922-2011) Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau) (1981-1983) $86,265,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
8 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) (1963) $85,350,500 11/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
9 Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) Untitled (1982) $85,000,000 05/18/22 Phillips New York
10 René MAGRITTE (1898-1967) L’empire des lumières (1961) $79,353,624 03/02/22 Sotheby’s London WR
11 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Le Parlement, soleil couchant (1900-1903) $75,960,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
12 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Femme nue couchée (1932) $67,541,000 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
13 Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970) Untitled (Shades of Red) (1961) $66,800,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
14 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge, soleil voilé (1899-1903) $64,510,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
15 Franz MARC (1880-1916) The Foxes (Die Füchse) (1913) $56,803,382 03/01/22 Christie’s London WR
16 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute (1908) $56,625,500 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
17 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Nymphéas (1907) $56,495,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
18 Jasper JOHNS (b. 1930) Small False Start (1960) $55,350,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
19 Jackson POLLOCK (1912-1956) Number 31 (1949) $54,205,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
20 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud (1964) $52,545,029 06/29/22 Sotheby’s London
21 Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Champs près des Alpilles (1889) $51,915,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
22 Édouard MANET (1832-1883) Le Grand Canal à Venise $51,915,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
23 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Triptych 1986-7 (1986-1987) $51,216,471 03/01/22 Christie’s London
24 Piet MONDRIAAN (1872-1944) Composition No. II (1930) $51,000,000 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York WR
25 Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970) No. 1 (1962) $49,625,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
26 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Tête de femme (Fernande) (1909) sculpture $48,480,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
27 Sandro BOTTICELLI (c.1445-1510) Madonna of the Magnificat $48,480,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
28 Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970) Untitled (1960) $48,008,000 05/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
29 ZHANG Daqian (1899-1983) Landscape after Wang Ximeng (1947) $47,218,847 04/30/22 Sotheby’s Hong Kong WR
30 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Study of Red Pope 1962, 2nd Version 1971 (1971) $46,284,500 05/19/22 Sotheby’s New York
31 Sandro BOTTICELLI (c.1445-1510) The Man of Sorrows $45,419,700 01/27/22 Sotheby’s New York
32 Emanuel Gottlieb LEUTZE (1816-1868) Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) $45,045,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York WR
33 Paul CÉZANNE (1839-1906) Clairière (The Glade) (c.1895) $41,688,500 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
34 Cy TWOMBLY (1928-2011) Untitled (2005) $41,640,000 11/15/22 Phillips New York
35 Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) Petite danseuse de quatorze ans (c.1879-1927) $41,610,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York WR
36 Paul SIGNAC (1863-1935) Concarneau, calme du matin (Opus no. 219, larghetto) (1891) $39,320,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
37 Cy TWOMBLY (1928-2011) Untitled (1969) $38,000,000 05/19/22 Sotheby’s New York
38 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Guitare sur une table (1919) $37,092,500 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
39 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume (1899-1904) $36,674,904 06/28/22 Christie’s London
40 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Nymphéas, temps gris (1907) $36,674,904 06/28/22 Christie’s London
41 Gerhard RICHTER (b. 1932) Abstraktes bild (1994) $36,500,000 05/10/22 Christie’s New York
42 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, automne (1891) $36,457,500 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
43 ZAO Wou-Ki (1921-2013) 29/09/64 (1964) $35,414,698 05/26/22 Christie’s Hong Kong
44 Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997) Untitled (c.1979) $34,794,500 11/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
45 Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997) Collage (1950) $33,645,500 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
46 Joseph Mallord William TURNER (1775-1851) Depositing of John Bellini’s Three Pictures in La Chiesa Redentore (1841) $33,595,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
47 Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue (ANT 124) (1960) $33,182,434 06/28/22 Christie’s London
48 Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) Sugar Ray Robinson (1982) $32,679,000 11/17/22 Christie’s New York
49 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Nymphéas (1914/17) $31,019,920 03/02/22 Sotheby’s London
50 Henry MOORE (1898-1986) Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) sculpture $31,000,000 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
51 Gerhard RICHTER (b. 1932) Seestück [Seascape] (1975) $30,198,500 05/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
52 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Trois hommes qui marchent (grand plateau) (1948) sculpture $30,198,500 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
53 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud (1964) $30,000,000 11/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
54 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Study for Self-Portrait (Three Studies for Self-Portrait) (1979) $29,015,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
55 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Femme qui marche [I] (1932/36) $28,311,597 06/14/22 Christie’s Paris
56 Francis BACON (1909-1992) Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) $27,117,658 10/14/22 Sotheby’s London
57 Jean-Baptiste Siméon CHARDIN (1699-1779) Le panier de fraises des bois $26,833,974 03/23/22 Artcurial Paris WR
58 Georgia O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) White Rose with Larkspur No. I (1927) $26,725,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
59 René MAGRITTE (1898-1967) La voix du sang (1948) $26,725,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
60 Claude MONET (1840-1926) La mare, effet de neige (1874-1875) $25,580,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
61 Gerhard RICHTER (b. 1932) Abstraktes Bild (1990) $25,534,233 10/07/22 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
62 Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997) Untitled XXI (1977) $25,007,500 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
63 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Femme de Venise III (1956) $25,007,500 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
64 Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919) Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet (1894) $24,435,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
65 Max ERNST (1891-1976) Le roi jouant avec la reine (1944) $24,435,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
66 Max BECKMANN (1884-1950) „Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa“ (1943) $24,401,393 12/01/22 Grisebach Berlin
67 MICHELANGELO (1475-1564) A nude man (after Masaccio) and two figures behind $24,306,087 05/18/22 Christie’s Paris WR
68 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Skull (1976) $24,000,000 05/12/22 Christie’s New York
69 David HOCKNEY (b. 1937) Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime (1968-1969) $23,682,666 10/13/22 Christie’s London
70 Claude MONET (1840-1926) Les Arceaux de roses, Giverny (1913) $23,304,500 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
71 Andrew WYETH (1917-2009) Day Dream (1980) $23,290,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York WR
72 David HOCKNEY (b. 1937) Winter Timber (2009) $23,290,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
73 Wassily KANDINSKY (1866-1944) Tiefes Braun (1924) $23,290,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
74 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Buste d’homme dans un cadre (1969) $22,287,055 05/26/22 Christie’s Hong Kong
75 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) La fenêtre ouverte (1929) $21,732,825 03/01/22 Christie’s London
76 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Elvis (1963) $21,581,000 05/19/22 Sotheby’s New York
77 Cy TWOMBLY (1928-2011) Untitled $21,000,000 05/09/22 Christie’s New York
78 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Silver Liz(Ferus Type) (1963) $20,859,597 03/30/22 Shinwa Auction Tokyo
79 Gerhard RICHTER (b. 1932) 192 Farben (1966) $20,408,325 10/14/22 Sotheby’s London
80 Lucian FREUD (1922-2011) Girl with Closed Eyes (1986-1987) $20,208,018 03/01/22 Christie’s London
81 Robert RYMAN (1930-2019) Untitled (c.1961) $20,141,250 05/09/22 Christie’s New York
82 Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) Relief Éponge bleu sans titre (RE 49) (1961) $19,999,500 05/18/22 Phillips New York
83 René MAGRITTE (1898-1967) Souvenir de voyage (1962-1963) $19,631,648 06/28/22 Christie’s London
84 Ed RUSCHA (b. 1937) Cold Beer Beautiful Girls (1993) $18,823,400 05/19/22 Sotheby’s New York
85 David HOCKNEY (b. 1937) Garrowby Hill (2017) $18,821,413 03/02/22 Sotheby’s London
86 David HOCKNEY (b. 1937) Queen Anne’s Lace Near Kilham (2010-2011) $18,710,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
87 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Self Portrait (1986) $18,708,500 05/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
88 Philip GUSTON (1913-1980) Nile (1958) $18,000,000 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
89 Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997) Untitled (1961) $17,789,300 05/16/22 Sotheby’s New York
90 Joan MIRO (1893-1983) Femme, étoiles (1945) $17,789,300 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
91 Jasper JOHNS (b. 1930) Numbers (1963) $17,565,000 11/09/22 Christie’s New York
92 Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings (devant une porte) (1915) $17,565,000 11/17/22 Christie’s New York
93 Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970) Untitled (1969) $17,565,000 11/17/22 Christie’s New York
94 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Femme de Venise II (1956) $17,559,500 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
95 Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Madame Dorival (1916) $17,559,500 05/17/22 Sotheby’s New York
96 Cy TWOMBLY (1928-2011) Venere sopra gaeta (1988) $16,992,500 05/09/22 Christie’s New York
97 Jeff KOONS (b. 1955) Jim Beam – J.B. Turner Train (1986) $16,992,500 11/17/22 Christie’s New York
98 Louise BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) Spider IV (1996) $16,467,565 04/27/22 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
99 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Caroline (1962) $15,985,500 11/14/22 Sotheby’s New York
100 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Buste de femme accoudée, gris et blanc (1938) $15,982,767 03/02/22 Sotheby’s London
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