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
Jeff Koon’s “Tulip”- $33.7 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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