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
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Roy Lichtenstein's " Sleeping Girl" - $44.9 Million
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John Constable's " The Lock" - $35.2 Million
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Andy Warhol's " Double Elvis" - $37 Million
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Jackson Pollock's "Number 4, 1951" - $36 Million
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Gerhard Richter's "Abstraktes Bild" - $34.2 Million
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Henry Moore's "Reclining Figure: Festival" - $30.1 Million
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Joan Miro's "Peinture(Etolie Bleue), 1927" - $36.9 Million
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Franz Kline's "Untitled" - $40.4 Million
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Raphael's "Head of A Young Apostle" - $47.8 Million
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Claude Monet's " Water Lillies" - $43.8 Million
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Yves Klein's "The Pink of Blue" - $36.8 Million
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Francis Bacon's "Untitled (Pope)"- $29.8 Million
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Mark Rothko's "No.1 (Royal Red and Blue) - $75.1 Million
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Andy Warhol's " Statue of Liberty" - $43.7 Million
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Jeff Koon's "Tulip"- $33.7 Million
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Wassily Kandinsky's "Study for Improvisation 8" -$23 Million
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled"- $26.4 Million
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Francis Bacon's " Figure Reflected in a Mirror" - $44.9 Million
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The Scream - $119.9 million
