Top 50 artists by auction turnover – H1 2018

Top 50 artists by auction turnover – H1 2018

Artist Tunover Sold lots Highest price
1 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) $602,865,747 1,841 $115,000,000
2 Claude MONET (1840-1926) $267,055,149 22 $84,687,500
3 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) $175,393,487 778 $37,000,000
4 Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) $162,756,656 64 $45,315,000
5 Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) $160,869,523 22 $157,159,000
6 ZAO Wou-Ki (1921-2013) $154,558,288 268 $23,305,301
7 Henri MATISSE (1869-1954) $144,675,227 227 $80,750,000
8 ZHANG Daqian (1899-1983) $107,478,086 283 $13,129,521
9 Kasimir MALEVICH (1878-1935) $96,248,783 6 $85,812,500
10 Joan MIRO (1893-1983) $87,818,817 696 $21,687,500
11 Gerhard RICHTER (1932-) $80,720,365 177 $16,563,000
12 David HOCKNEY (1937-) $77,358,842 214 $28,453,000
13 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) $73,528,071 74 $16,647,567
14 Francis BACON (1909-1992) $73,156,871 58 $49,812,500
15 Constantin BRANCUSI (1876-1957) $71,921,220 3 $71,000,000
16 QI Baishi (1864-1957) $64,402,510 169 $8,753,015
17 Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903) $63,511,735 34 $35,187,500
18 Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955) $62,655,125 122 $19,437,500
19 Richard DIEBENKORN (1922-1993) $62,311,216 54 $23,937,500
20 Yayoi KUSAMA (1929-) $61,861,631 344 $4,534,985
21 FU Baoshi (1904-1965) $56,982,621 36 $16,076,966
22 Lucio FONTANA (1899-1968) $55,646,623 126 $12,041,904
23 Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) $54,176,026 605 $7,062,500
24 Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-1890) $53,586,885 8 $39,687,500
25 Willem DE KOONING (1904-1997) $51,032,480 47 $14,262,500
26 Mark ROTHKO (1903-1970) $49,544,407 3 $30,687,500
27 WU Guanzhong (1919-2010) $49,445,618 50 $11,462,336
28 Jackson POLLOCK (1912-1956) $49,194,560 7 $34,098,000
29 XU Beihong (1895-1953) $48,884,126 52 $13,933,370
30 Peter DOIG (1959-) $48,756,626 21 $19,958,612
31 CUI Ruzhuo (1944-) $47,910,531 12 $16,076,966
32 Joan MITCHELL (1926-1992) $43,845,096 22 $16,625,000
33 René MAGRITTE (1898-1967) $42,694,603 71 $10,031,386
34 Rudolf STINGEL (1956-) $41,743,070 17 $7,938,905
35 Alexander CALDER (1898-1976) $40,492,311 239 $5,150,000
36 Christopher WOOL (1955-) $39,594,632 32 $14,472,784
37 George CONDO (1957-) $39,223,582 72 $6,162,500
38 HUANG Binhong (1865-1955) $37,991,976 71 $5,303,995
39 Juan GRIS (1887-1927) $37,298,361 17 $31,812,500
40 Mark BRADFORD (1961-) $37,272,682 7 $11,979,851
41 LI Keran (1907-1989) $36,371,317 61 $19,649,625
42 Georges Pierre SEURAT (1859-1891) $35,222,578 6 $34,062,500
43 Lucian FREUD (1922-2011) $33,685,438 20 $29,732,780
44 Kerry James MARSHALL (1955-) $33,376,625 12 $21,114,500
45 Édouard MANET (1832-1883) $32,426,825 32 $12,968,750
46 Jean DUBUFFET (1901-1985) $31,929,202 108 $3,569,247
47 Roy LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997) $30,615,791 273 $10,501,900
48 CHU Teh-Chun (1920-2014) $29,823,512 42 $7,844,012
49 Jeff KOONS (1955-) $29,773,802 76 $22,812,500
50 Henry MOORE (1898-1986) $29,246,616 191 $6,085,474
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