Auction Kings: Public Hammer Records

Salvator Mundi's $450.3M dwarfs every rival ever sold under the gavel.

The top 3

1. Salvator Mundi — Leonardo da Vinci: Sold for $450.3M at Christie's New York in 2017 — the highest price ever paid for any artwork at auction.
2. Shot Sage Blue Marilyn — Andy Warhol: $195M at Christie's in 2022 — the priciest 20th-century artwork ever sold at auction.
3. Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) — Picasso: $179.4M at Christie's in 2015 — long the top Picasso and the auction record before Warhol's Marilyn.

Sources

• Christie's
• Encyclopaedia Britannica

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