News | December 11, 2012

The Most Expensive and the Biggest Art Auction Sales of 2012

News | December 11, 2012

By Laura Yarborough

Over this year, art sales have set records among three of the major auction houses: Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury’s, despite the international recession. This has been one of the biggest years in art sales compared to prior auctions. In November alone, Christie’s made nearly half a billion dollars off of contemporary art. With the year coming to an end, it’s only right to mention and show “The Biggest Art Auction Sales of 2012.” Here’s is a wonderful slideshow of masterpieces sold at the auction in 2012 and at the most expensive prices.

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Mark Rothko’s ” Orange, Red, Yellow” – $87 Million

Roy Lichtenstein’s ” Sleeping Girl” – $44.9 Million

John Constable’s ” The Lock” – $35.2 Million

Andy Warhol’s ” Double Elvis” – $37 Million

Jackson Pollock’s “Number 4, 1951” – $36 Million

Gerhard Richter’s “Abstraktes Bild” – $34.2 Million

Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure: Festival” – $30.1 Million

Joan Miro’s “Peinture(Etolie Bleue), 1927” – $36.9 Million

Franz Kline’s “Untitled” – $40.4 Million

Raphael’s “Head of A Young Apostle” – $47.8 Million

Claude Monet’s ” Water Lillies” – $43.8 Million

Yves Klein’s “The Pink of Blue” – $36.8 Million

Francis Bacon’s “Untitled (Pope)”- $29.8 Million

Mark Rothko’s “No.1 (Royal Red and Blue) – $75.1 Million

Andy Warhol’s ” Statue of Liberty” – $43.7 Million

Wassily Kandinsky’s “Study for Improvisation 8” -$23 Million

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled”- $26.4 Million

Francis Bacon’s ” Figure Reflected in a Mirror” – $44.9 Million

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