Records Within the Record

Living artists and women each hold their own crowns beneath the old-master ceiling.

The top 3

1. Rabbit — Jeff Koons: $91.1M at Christie's in 2019 — the most expensive work by a living artist ever sold at auction.
2. Pool with Two Figures — David Hockney: $90.3M in 2018 — the living-artist record that Koons beat by a whisker just months later.
3. Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 — Georgia O'Keeffe: $44.4M at Sotheby's in 2014 — long the highest auction price for a work by a woman artist.

Sources

• Christie's
• Sotheby's

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