Artprice: Top 50 Artworks Sold at Auction in 2018

The Art Market's principal motivation has always been to seek the exceptional and the rare. The quest for strong sensations is an inherent characteristic of its history and its market: by acquiring an artwork, the collector also acquires an extraordinary history.

Collectors are naturally on the lookout for the right work by the right artist at the right time and at the right price, but they are also looking for a story that they relates to. In spite of these 'search criteria', the Art Market posts a global average 30% to 35% unsold rate, a key indicator of the Market's health.

The inescapable processes of selection – indispensable to the Market's refinement – are at the heart of the Museum Industry, the growth of which represents a genuine revolution in Art History.

Museums have in effect become the Temples of our 21st century: the number of visitors has multiplied by at least ten over the last 20 years. This represents an outstanding growth rate and it has been accompanied by the development of an entertainment market offering all manner of interactivity, derivatives, virtual visits, etc.

In sum, with the museums, the galleries and the auction houses, art has become a vast domain for leisure, discovery, education and curiosity.

Rank; Artist; Artwork; Price ($)
1; Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920); Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) (1917); 157,159,000
2; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Fillette la corbeille fleurie (1905); 115,000,000
3; Edward HOPPER (1882-1967); Chop Suey (1929); 91,875,000 
4; David HOCKNEY (b. 1937); Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972); 90,312,500 
5; Kasimir MALEVICH (1878-1935); Suprematist Composition (1916); 85,812,500 
6; Claude MONET (1840-1926); Nymphéas en fleur (c.1914-1917); 84,687,500 
7; Henri MATISSE (1869-1954); Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923); 80,750,000 
8; Constantin BRANCUSI (1876-1957); La jeune fille sophistiquée  (1928); 71,000,000 
9; Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997); Woman as Landscape (1954-1955); 68,937,500 
10; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (1937); 68,702,214 
11; ZAO Wou-Ki (1921-2013); Juin-Octobre 1985 (1985); 65,204,489 
12; SU Shi (1037-1101); Wood and rock; 59,206,820 
13; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); La Dormeuse (1932); 57,829,046 
14; Jackson POLLOCK (1912-1956); Composition with Red Strokes (1950); 55,437,500 
15; Francis BACON (1909-1992); Study for Portrait (1977); 49,812,500 
16; Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988); Flexible (1984); 45,315,000 
17; PAN Tianshou (1897-1971); View From the Peek (1963); 41,392,525 
18; Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-1890); Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle Saint-Paul de Mausole (1889); 39,687,500 
19; Andy WARHOL (1928-1987); Double Elvis [Ferus Type] (1963); 37,000,000 
20; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Le repos (1932); 36,920,500 
21; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant) (1932); 35,974,916 
22; Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970); Untitled (Rust, Blacks on Plum) (1962); 35,712,500 
23; Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903); La Vague (1888); 35,187,500 
24; Jackson POLLOCK (1912-1956); Number 32, 1949 (1949); 34,098,000 
25; Georges Pierre SEURAT (1859-1891); La rade de Grandcamp (Le port de Grandcamp) (1885); 34,062,500 
26; Claude MONET (1840-1926); La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure (1877); 32,960,961 
27; Claude MONET (1840-1926); Extérieur de la gare Saint-Lazare, effet de soleil (1877); 32,937,500 
28; Gerhard RICHTER (b. 1932); Abstraktes Bild (1987); 32,000,000 
29; Juan GRIS (1887-1927); La table de musicien (1914); 31,812,500 
30; Claude MONET (1840-1926); Le bassin aux nymphéas (1917-1919); 31,812,500 
31; Andy WARHOL (1928-1987); Six Self Portraits (1986); 31,414,491 
32; Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988); Flesh And Spirit (1982/83); 30,711,000 
33; Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970); No. 7 (Dark Over Light) (1954); 30,687,500 
34; Lucian FREUD (1922-2011); Portrait on a White Cover (2002/03); 29,732,780 
35; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); La Lampe (1931); 29,562,500 
36; David HOCKNEY (b. 1937); Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica (1990); 28,453,000 
37; Andy WARHOL (1928-1987); Most Wanted Men No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr (1964); 28,437,500 
38; Ren MAGRITTE (1898-1967); Le principe du plaisir (1937); 26,830,500 
39; Francis BACON (1909-1992); Figure in Movement (1972); 25,918,362
40; Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988); Untitled ( Pollo Frito) (1982); 25,701,500 
41; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Femme dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar) (1942); 25,539,921
42; Egon SCHIELE (1890-1918); Dämmernde stadt (Die kleine stadt ii) (1913); 24,572,500 
43; Wassily KANDINSKY (1866-1944); Improvisation auf mahagoni (1910); 24,233,800 
44; Richard DIEBENKORN (1922-1993); Ocean Park #126 (1984); 23,937,500 
45; ZAO Wou-Ki (1921-2013); Et la terre était sans forme (1956-1957); 23,305,301 
46; Wassily KANDINSKY (1866-1944); Zum thema jngstes gericht (1913); 22,879,000 
47; Jeff KOONS (b. 1955); Play-Doh (1994-2014); 22,812,500 
48; Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973); Le matador (1970); 22,780,091 
49; Joan MIRO (1893-1983); Femme dans la nuit (1945); 22,590,000 
50; Richard DIEBENKORN (1922-1993); Ocean Park #137 (1985); 22,587,500

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