The ten most expensive works of art sold in 2022

The big auction houses have had the best year in their history, with million-dollar sales that, adding the three big ones (Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips), reached a stratospheric figure of 17.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
31 December 2022 Saturday 22:50
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The ten most expensive works of art sold in 2022

The big auction houses have had the best year in their history, with million-dollar sales that, adding the three big ones (Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips), reached a stratospheric figure of 17.8 billion dollars (13.6 billion in strictly works of art). Here are the most expensive works sold at auction in 2022.

Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, which was part of the estate of Swiss brothers Thomas and Doris Ammann, was bought for $195.04 million, the second-highest amount sold at auction after the dubious Salvator Mundi by Leonardo, which sold for $450 million in 2017.