The
rating is presented by agency Skate's ArtMarket Research based on data on Top-10000 most expensive works of
visual art sold at open auctions before February 2015 (data on closed private sales were
ignored).
Pablo
Picasso heads the rating, leaving the competitors far behind. Top-10000 includes 572 of his paintings with total value of $ 4 096,100 million. The
average price of Picasso's works is $ 7,161 million. The
highest average price of works by Gustav Klimt amounts to $ 20,864 million.
The
presented Top-50 includes four living artists: Gerhard
Richter, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Damien Hirst.
The following table shows the years of the life of artists and artistic styles which include the majority of their artworks sold.
| RANK |
ARTIST
|
QUANTITY OF WORKS IN
TOP-10000 |
AVERAGE PRICE
(USD million) |
TOTAL VALUE
(USD million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Cubist
|
572
|
7,610
|
4 096,100
|
| 2 |
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Pop-art
|
387
|
7,098
|
2 747,000
|
| 3 |
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Impressionism
|
300
|
7,020
|
2 106,080
|
| 4 |
85
|
18,094
|
1 538,010
|
|
| 5 |
Gerhard Richter (1932), Avant-garde
|
180
|
6,791
|
1 222,450
|
| 6 |
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Sculpture, Surrealism
|
129
|
8,318
|
1 073,030
|
| 7 |
84
|
12,654
|
1 062,970
| |
| 8 |
133
|
7,175
|
954,406
|
|
| 9 |
148
|
5,985
|
885,765
|
|
10
|
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Impressionism
|
187
|
4,593
|
858,929
|
11
|
79
|
10,518
|
830,943
| |
12
|
97
|
8,418
|
816,594
| |
13
|
63
|
12,305
|
775,221
| |
14
|
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Abstract expressionism
|
115
|
6,740
|
775,157
|
15
|
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Pop-art
|
115
|
6,553
|
753,586
|
16
|
Joan Miró (1893-1983), Dada, Surrealism
|
107
|
5,639
|
603,384
|
17
|
Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Cubist
|
123
|
4,867
|
598,627
|
18
|
Jeff Koons (1955), Neo-pop
|
86
|
6,945
|
597,316
|
19
|
Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), Guchua, Impressionism
|
153
|
3,868
|
591,768
|
20
|
119
|
4,906
|
583,783
| |
21
|
137
|
3,179
|
435,531
| |
22
|
Alexander Calder (1898-1973), Sculpture, Cinetic art
|
129
|
3,342
|
431,081
|
23
|
58
|
7,360
|
426,909
| |
24
|
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Modern
|
20
|
20,864
|
417,297
|
25
|
73
|
5,665
|
413,578
| |
26
|
97
|
4,094
|
397,092
| |
27
|
110
|
3,373
|
371,049
| |
28
|
89
|
4,060
|
361,378
| |
29
|
Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Expressionism
|
61
|
5,895
|
359,612
|
30
|
Yves Klein (1928-1962), Pop-art, Minimal art
|
50
|
7,104
|
355,201
|
31
|
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Impressionism
|
109
|
3,095
|
337,353
|
32
|
91
|
3,640
|
331,284
| |
33
|
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Expressionism, Abstract art
|
55
|
5,982
|
329,022
|
34
|
37
|
8,288
|
306,672
| |
35
|
80
|
3,704
|
296,360
| |
36
|
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Abstract expressionism
|
28
|
10,341
|
289,549
|
37
|
27
|
10,248
|
276,691
| |
38
|
39
|
7,011
|
273,441
| |
39
|
Lucian Freud (1922-2011), Realism, Neorealism
|
38
|
6,944
|
263,884
|
40
|
Jasper Johns (1932), Pop-art
|
43
|
6,134
|
263,765
|
41
|
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Abstract art
|
32
|
7,985
|
255,508
|
42
|
Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010), Post-impressionism, Modern Chinese painting
|
74
|
3,413
|
252,558
|
43
|
Canaletto (1697-1768), Baroque
|
41
|
5,964
|
244,514
|
44
|
Damien Hirst (1965), Conceptual art
|
68
|
3,347
|
227,628
|
45
|
Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), Modern Chinese painting, "Boashi wrinkle"
|
71
|
3,144
|
223,224
|
46
|
56
|
3,856
|
215,954
| |
47
|
Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Modern Chinese painting
|
55
|
3,737
|
205,540
|
48
|
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968), Fauvism
|
63
|
3,256
|
205,151
|
49
|
Georges Braque (1882-1963), Fauvism, Cubist
|
54
|
3,796
|
204,994
|
50
|
14
|
14,615
|
204,619
| |