Pablo Picasso, Le Repos, 1932: $36.9 Million Andy Warhol, Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963: $37 Million Vincent van Gogh, Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle Saint-Paul de Mausole (Saint-Rémy), 1889: $39.7 Million Pan Tianshou, View from the Peak, 1963: $41.4 Million Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flexible, 1984: $45.3 Million Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, 1977: $49.8 Million Jackson Pollock, Composition with Red Strokes, 1950: $55.4 Million Pablo Picasso, La Dormeuse, 1932: $57.9 Million Su Shi, Wood and Rock, 1071–1101: $59.3 Million Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985, 1985: $65.2 Million Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1937: $69.4 Million Willem de Kooning, Woman as Landscape, ca. 1954–55: $68.9 Million Constantin Brâncuși, La jeune fille sophistiquée (Portrait de Nancy Cunard), 1932: $71.2 Million Henri Matisse, Odalisque couchée aux magnolias, 1923: $80.8 Million Claude Monet, Nymphéas en fleur, ca. 1914–17: $84.7 Million Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916: $85.8 Million Edward Hopper, Chop Suey, 1929: $91.9 Million David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972: $90.3 Million Pablo Picasso, Fillette à la corbeille fleurie, 1905: $115 Million Amedeo Modigliani, Nu Couché (Sur Le Côté Gauche), 1917: $157.1 Million Outside of the top 20, other art sales records were broken, like Sean Combs’ purchase of Kerry James Marshall’s 1997 painting Past Times, which at $21.1 million made Marshall the most expensive living black artist but failed to crack the top 50 in price overall. And Jenny Saville became the most expensive living female artist after one of her works sold for $12.4 million, but that was outside the top 100 most expensive paintings of the year.
