Prices at auction

The Record Book

Every work with a recorded auction price, 1,417 in all, ranked from the highest price achieved at auction to the lowest. Prices include the buyer’s premium, in US dollars at the time of sale. Under each price is the same amount in today’s money (US consumer prices, September 2026). The 10 works with no USD price yet follow at the end. 57 works have no known sale date, or were sold before 1913, so they are not adjusted for inflation; ranked in today’s money, they follow the rest.

For every artwork, in or out of the Collection, see the most expensive works ever sold at auction.

Record as of 22 October 2026 · 1,417 works · 394 artists · 1876–2026

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1–100 of 1,417 works

Rank by Price at the time In today’s money

Number 1: Salvator Mundi
Leonardo da Vinci, c.1500
Christie’s · New York 2017 · No. 2013
$450.3 million$615.1 million today
Number 2: Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
Gustav Klimt, 1914–16
Sotheby’s · New York 2025 · No. 12
Confirmed by two sources
$236.4 million$245.7 million today
Number 3: Shot Sage Blue Marilyn
Andy Warhol, 1964
Christie’s · New York 2022 · No. 04
Confirmed by two sources
$195 million$224.8 million today
Number 4: Nu couché
Amedeo Modigliani, 1917/18
Christie’s · New York 2015 · No. 2014
$170.4 million$241.9 million today
Number 5: Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)
Amedeo Modigliani, 1917
Sotheby’s · New York 2018 · No. 2016
$157.2 million$210.5 million today
Number 6: Twelve Landscape Screens
Qi Baishi, 1925
Poly Auction · Beijing 2017 · No. 2018
$140.8 million$192.4 million today
Number 7: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cézanne, 1888–1890
Christie’s · New York 2022 · No. 2021
$137.7 million$155.8 million today
Number 8: The Scream
Edvard Munch, 1895
Sotheby’s · New York 2012 · No. 2020
$119.9 million$175.8 million today
Number 9: Orchard with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Christie’s · New York 2022 · No. 07
Confirmed by two sources
$117.2 million$132.6 million today
Number 10: Young Girl with a Flower Basket
Pablo Picasso, 1905
Christie’s · New York 2018 · No. 2023
$115 million$154 million today
Number 11: Grainstacks
Claude Monet, 1890 (signed and dated 1891)
Sotheby’s · New York 2019 · No. 10
Confirmed by two sources
$110.7 million$145.7 million today
Number 12: Lady with a Fan
Gustav Klimt, 1917–18
Sotheby’s · London 2023 · No. 2031
$108.4 million$119.7 million today
Number 13: Maternité II
Paul Gauguin, 1899
Christie’s · New York 2022 · No. 2025
$105.7 million$119.6 million today
Number 14: Birch Forest
Gustav Klimt, 1903
Christie’s · New York 2022 · No. 2027
$104.5 million$118.3 million today
Number 15: Garçon à la pipe
Pablo Picasso, 1905
Sotheby’s · New York 2004 · No. 2019
$104.2 million$185.7 million today
Number 16: Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel
Sandro Botticelli, c.1480
Sotheby’s · New York 2021 · No. 2033
$92.2 million$118.8 million today
Number 17: Chop Suey
Edward Hopper, 1929
Christie’s · New York 2018 · No. 2029
$91.9 million$122.9 million today
Number 18: Buffalo II
Robert Rauschenberg, 1964
Christie’s · New York 2019 · No. 08
Confirmed by two sources
$88.8 million$116.8 million today
Number 19: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
Gustav Klimt, 1912
Christie’s · New York 2006 · No. 01
Confirmed by two sources
$87.9 million$147 million today
Number 20: Suprematist Composition
Kazimir Malevich, 1916
Christie’s · New York 2018 · No. 2032
$85.8 million$114.9 million today
Number 21: Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Christie’s · New York 1990 · No. 2015
$82.5 million$215.2 million today
Number 22: Meule
Claude Monet, 1891
Christie’s · New York 2016 · No. 2034
$81.4 million$113.6 million today
Number 23: Odalisque couchée aux magnolias
Henri Matisse, 1923
Christie’s · New York 2018 · No. 2037
$80.8 million$108.2 million today
Number 24: Le Bassin aux Nymphéas
Claude Monet, 1919
Christie’s · London 2008 · No. 2028
$80.5 million$124 million today
Number 25: Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
Sotheby’s · New York 1990 · No. 2017
$78.1 million$203.7 million today
Number 26: Ten Views Of Lingbi Rock
Wu Bin, 1610
Poly Auction · Beijing 2020 · No. 2040
$77 million$99.6 million today
Number 27: The Massacre of the Innocents
Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1609–11
Sotheby’s · London 2002 · No. 1924
$76.6 million$143.3 million today
Number 28: Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 2045
$71.4 million$86.6 million today
Number 29: Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)
Claude Monet, 1917–1919
Sotheby’s · New York 2021 · No. 2046
$70.4 million$88.1 million today
Number 30: Contraste de formes
Fernand Léger, 1913
Christie’s · New York 2017 · No. 2041
$70.1 million$95.8 million today
Number 31: Nude Sitting on a Divan
Amedeo Modigliani, 1917
Sotheby’s · New York 2010 · No. 2039
$69 million$106.3 million today
Number 32: La Gommeuse
Pablo Picasso, 1901
Sotheby’s · New York 2015 · No. 2042
$67.5 million$95.8 million today
Number 33: Le Printemps
Édouard Manet, 1881
Christie’s · 2014 · No. 2048
$65.1 million$92.9 million today
Number 34: Spring
Édouard Manet, 1881
Christie’s · New York 2014 · No. 2044
$65.1 million$92.9 million today
Number 35: Di Zhu Ming (Inscription on the Pillar at Dizhu)
Huang Tingjian, Northern Song
Poly Auction · Beijing 2010 · No. 1787
$62.8 million$97.1 million today
Number 36: Zhichuan Resettlement
Wang Meng, 1350
Poly Auction · Beijing 2011 · No. 2043
$62.1 million$92.7 million today
Number 37: Nature morte, vase aux marguerites et coquelicots
Vincent van Gogh, 1886
Sotheby’s · 2014 · No. 2049
$61.8 million$88.1 million today
Number 38: Lot and His Daughters
Peter Paul Rubens, c.1613–1614
Christie’s · 2016 · No. 2050
$60.9 million$85.3 million today
Number 39: Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Paul Cézanne, 1894
Sotheby’s · New York 1999 · No. 2030
$60.5 million$122.7 million today
Number 40: Wood and Rock
Su Shi, c.1071–1101
Christie’s · 2018 · No. 2051
$59.5 million$79.6 million today
Number 41: Bauerngarten (Flower Garden)
Gustav Klimt, 1907
Sotheby’s · London 2017 · No. 2195
$59.3 million$82 million today
Number 42: Bouilloire et fruits
Paul Cézanne, c.1888–1890
Christie’s · 2019 · No. 2052
$59.3 million$78 million today
Number 43: Die Füchse
Franz Marc, 1913
Christie’s · London 2022 · No. 1513
$56.7 million$66.4 million today
Number 44: Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux
Juan Gris, 1915
Christie’s · London 2014 · No. 1560
$56.7 million$81.3 million today
Number 45: Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute
Claude Monet, 1908
Sotheby’s · 2022 · No. 2053
$56.6 million$65.3 million today
Number 46: L’Estaque aux toits rouges
Paul Cézanne, c. 1883–85
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 2054
$55.3 million$67.1 million today
Number 47: Femme aux Bras Croisés
Pablo Picasso, 1902
Christie’s · New York 2000 · No. 2038
$55 million$106.4 million today
Number 48: The Dream (The Bed)
Frida Kahlo, 1940
Sotheby’s · New York 2025 · No. 05
Confirmed by two sources
$54.7 million$56.8 million today
Number 49: Girls on the Bridge
Edvard Munch, 1902
Sotheby’s · New York 2016 · No. 2202
$54.5 million$76.1 million today
Number 50: Irises
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Sotheby’s · New York 1987 · No. 2022
$53.9 million$157.4 million today
Number 51: Insel im Attersee
Gustav Klimt, c.1901-02
Sotheby’s · New York 2023 · No. 2196
$53.2 million$58.9 million today
Number 52: Jeune homme à sa fenêtre
Gustave Caillebotte, 1876
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 1199
$53 million$64.3 million today
Number 53: Le Grand Canal à Venise
Édouard Manet, 1874
Christie’s · 2022 · No. 2055
$51.9 million$58.8 million today
Number 54: Composition No. II
Piet Mondrian, 1930
Sotheby’s · New York 2022 · No. 1613
$51 million$57.7 million today
Number 55: Les Noces de Pierrette
Pablo Picasso, 1905
Binoche et Godeau Paris · 1989 · No. 2024
$49.3 million$131.9 million today
Number 56: Six Dragons
Chen Rong, 13th century
Christie’s · 2017 · No. 2056
$49 million$67.4 million today
Number 57: Waterloo Bridge, effet de brouillard
Claude Monet, 1903
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 1142
$48.5 million$60.7 million today
Number 58: Madonna of the Magnificat
Sandro Botticelli, c.1481
Christie’s · 2022 · No. 2057
$48.5 million$54.9 million today
Number 59: Yo, Picasso
Pablo Picasso, 1901
Sotheby’s · New York 1989 · No. 2026
$47.8 million$130.1 million today
Number 60: Rome, from Mount Aventine
J. M. W. Turner, 1836
Sotheby’s · 2014 · No. 2058
$47.6 million$68.3 million today
Number 61: Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsövány)
Gustav Klimt, 1902
Sotheby’s · London 2026 · No. 1198
$47.6 million$48 million today
Number 62: Jeune homme au bleuet
Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 1338
$46.7 million$56.6 million today
Number 63: Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose
Henri Matisse, 1911
Christie’s · Paris 2009 · No. 2194
$45.9 million$73 million today
Number 64: The Man of Sorrows
Sandro Botticelli, c.1500–1510
Sotheby’s · 2022 · No. 2059
$45.4 million$54.4 million today
Number 65: Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino
J. M. W. Turner, 1839
Sotheby’s · London 2010 · No. 2060
$44.9 million$69.4 million today
Number 66: Murnau mit Kirche II
Wassily Kandinsky, 1910
Sotheby’s · London 2023 · No. 2193
$44.9 million$50.1 million today
Number 67: Five Drunken Kings on Horses
Ren Renfa, c.1320s
Poly Auction · 2016 · No. 2061
$44.1 million$61.7 million today
Number 68: Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day
Canaletto, c.1732
Christie’s · London 2025 · No. 1698
$43.9 million$45.8 million today
Number 69: Paulette Jourdain
Amedeo Modigliani, c.1919
Sotheby’s · New York 2015 · No. 2198
$42.8 million$60.8 million today
Number 70: Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge, looking north, from the Fondamenta del Carbon
Francesco Guardi, c.1780s
Sotheby’s · London 2011 · No. 1729
$42.7 million$63.7 million today
Number 71: Jeanne Hébuterne (au chapeau)
Amedeo Modigliani, 1919
Christie’s · London 2013 · No. 1388
$42.1 million$61.1 million today
Number 72: Bild mit weissen Linien
Wassily Kandinsky, 1913
Sotheby’s · London 2017 · No. 1638
$41.8 million$57.5 million today
Number 73: Das bunte Leben (La vie mélangée)
Wassily Kandinsky, 1907
Christie’s · London 2026 · No. 1651
$41.8 million$41.8 million today
Number 74: Au Lapin Agile
Pablo Picasso, 1904
Sotheby’s · New York 1989 · No. 2035
$40.7 million$108.9 million today
Number 75: Inkstone Washing (涤砚图)
Wang Meng, 14th century
China Guardian · 2023 · No. 2062
$40.6 million$44.5 million today
Number 76: Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen)
Gustav Klimt, 1913
Sotheby’s · London 2010 · No. 1530
$40.4 million$62.5 million today
Number 77: Litzlberg am Attersee
Gustav Klimt, 1914
Sotheby’s · New York 2011 · No. 1528
$40.4 million$60.2 million today
Number 78: L'homme à la hache
Paul Gauguin, 1891
Christie’s · New York 2006 · No. 1300
$40.3 million$67.4 million today
Number 79: L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux)
Vincent van Gogh, February 1890
Christie’s · New York 2006 · No. 2204
$40.3 million$67.1 million today
Number 80: Arbres dans le jardin de l'asile
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Christie’s · New York 2019 · No. 1339
$40 million$52.6 million today
Number 81: Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II)
Egon Schiele, 1914
Sotheby’s · London 2011 · No. 1463
$39.8 million$59.4 million today
Number 82: Composition with Large Red Plane, Blue, Gray, Black and Yellow
Piet Mondrian, 1928
Christie’s · New York · No. 1614
$39.7 million
Number 83: Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle Saint-Paul de Mausole (Saint-Rémy)
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Christie’s · New York 2018 · No. 1340
$39.7 million$53.2 million today
Number 84: Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback
Ren Renfa, Yuan
Sotheby’s · Hong Kong 2020 · No. 1965
$39.6 million$51.2 million today
Number 85: Le pont de Trinquetaille
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 1341
$39.3 million$49.2 million today
Number 86: La femme en bleu
Fernand Léger, 1912
Sotheby’s · New York 2008 · No. 1494
$39.2 million$61 million today
Number 87: Nymphéas (1905)
Claude Monet, 1905
Christie’s · 2012 · No. 2063
$39 million$57.3 million today
Number 88: Letters to Guo Youzhi (two letters handscroll)
Zhao Mengfu, Yuan
China Guardian · Beijing 2019 · No. 2011
$38.9 million$51.2 million today
Number 89: Acrobate et jeune arlequin (Acrobat and Young Harlequin)
Pablo Picasso, 1905
Christie’s · London 1988 · No. 2036
$38.5 million$107.8 million today
Number 90: Vampire
Edvard Munch, 1894
Sotheby’s · New York 2008 · No. 2203
$38.2 million$60.5 million today
Number 91: Berliner Strassenszene (recto); Bäume (verso)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913-1914
Christie’s · New York 2006 · No. 2409
$38.1 million$63.7 million today
Number 92: Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
Raphael, 1518
Christie’s · London 2007 · No. 1949
$37.3 million$60.3 million today
Number 93: Bildnis Fräulein Lieser
Gustav Klimt, 1917
im Kinsky · Vienna 2024 · No. 1529
$37 million$39.8 million today
Number 94: Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume
Claude Monet, 1904
Christie’s · London 2022 · No. 1143
$36.7 million$41.7 million today
Number 95: The Finding of Moses
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904
Sotheby’s · New York 2010 · No. 1270
$35.9 million$55.5 million today
Number 96: Meules de blé
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Christie’s · New York 2021 · No. 1342
$35.9 million$43.5 million today
Number 97: Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a trainer, a jockey and a stable lad
George Stubbs, c.1765
Christie’s · 2011 · No. 2064
$35.9 million$53.5 million today
Number 98: Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio
J. M. W. Turner, 1841
Christie’s · 2006 · No. 2065
$35.9 million$60 million today
Number 99: The Lock
John Constable, 1824
Christie’s · London 2012 · No. 1054
$35.2 million$51.8 million today
Number 100: Portrait of a Halberdier
Jacopo Pontormo, c.1529-30
Christie’s · New York 1989 · No. 1805
$35.2 million$95.8 million today

The Record Book

Number 1: Salvator Mundi

Number 2: Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer

Number 3: Shot Sage Blue Marilyn

Number 4: Nu couché

Number 5: Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)

Number 6: Twelve Landscape Screens

Number 7: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

Number 8: The Scream

Number 9: Orchard with Cypresses

Number 10: Young Girl with a Flower Basket

Number 11: Grainstacks

Number 12: Lady with a Fan

Number 13: Maternité II

Number 14: Birch Forest

Number 15: Garçon à la pipe

Number 16: Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel

Number 17: Chop Suey

Number 18: Buffalo II

Number 19: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II

Number 20: Suprematist Composition

Number 21: Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Number 22: Meule

Number 23: Odalisque couchée aux magnolias

Number 24: Le Bassin aux Nymphéas

Number 25: Bal du moulin de la Galette

Number 26: Ten Views Of Lingbi Rock

Number 27: The Massacre of the Innocents

Number 28: Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès

Number 29: Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)

Number 30: Contraste de formes

Number 31: Nude Sitting on a Divan

Number 32: La Gommeuse

Number 33: Le Printemps

Number 34: Spring

Number 35: Di Zhu Ming (Inscription on the Pillar at Dizhu)

Number 36: Zhichuan Resettlement

Number 37: Nature morte, vase aux marguerites et coquelicots

Number 38: Lot and His Daughters

Number 39: Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier

Number 40: Wood and Rock

Number 41: Bauerngarten (Flower Garden)

Number 42: Bouilloire et fruits

Number 43: Die Füchse

Number 44: Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux

Number 45: Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute

Number 46: L’Estaque aux toits rouges

Number 47: Femme aux Bras Croisés

Number 48: The Dream (The Bed)

Number 49: Girls on the Bridge

Number 50: Irises

Number 51: Insel im Attersee

Number 52: Jeune homme à sa fenêtre

Number 53: Le Grand Canal à Venise

Number 54: Composition No. II

Number 55: Les Noces de Pierrette

Number 56: Six Dragons

Number 57: Waterloo Bridge, effet de brouillard

Number 58: Madonna of the Magnificat

Number 59: Yo, Picasso

Number 60: Rome, from Mount Aventine

Number 61: Bildnis Gertrud Loew (Gertha Felsövány)

Number 62: Jeune homme au bleuet

Number 63: Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose

Number 64: The Man of Sorrows

Number 65: Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino

Number 66: Murnau mit Kirche II

Number 67: Five Drunken Kings on Horses

Number 68: Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day

Number 69: Paulette Jourdain

Number 70: Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge, looking north, from the Fondamenta del Carbon

Number 71: Jeanne Hébuterne (au chapeau)

Number 72: Bild mit weissen Linien

Number 73: Das bunte Leben (La vie mélangée)

Number 74: Au Lapin Agile

Number 75: Inkstone Washing (涤砚图)

Number 76: Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen)

Number 77: Litzlberg am Attersee

Number 78: L'homme à la hache

Number 79: L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux)