10 Highest Priced Paintings Auctioned in 2021

  • $103.4 Million Pablo Picasso painting sold nearly twice its presale estimate
  • $93.1 Million Jean Michel Basquiat painting
  • $92.1 Million Sandro Botticelli painting
  • $82.5 Million Mark Rothko painting
  • $71.35 Million Vincent Van Gogh painting
  • $71.35 Million Claude Monet painting
  • $61.6 Million Jackson Pollack painting
Femme Assise Pres d’une Fenetre (1932) by Pablo Picasso

Picasso’s seated female measuring 57″ X 44″ sold for more than $40,000 per square inch at Christie’s during May 2021. The same painting was last sold in February 2013 at Sotheby’s for a little more than $40 Million. Its value increased by more than 2 1/2 times over a period of eight (8) years.

However, the most expensive (to date) painting by Picasso sold at auction brought $179,365,000 measuring 44″ X 57″ on May 1, 2015 at Christie’s New York. Titled Les Femmes d’Alger, it is pictured below.

Les Femmes d’Alger by Pablo Picasso

What the highest price realized for a painting by Pablo Picasso NOT sold at auction (via a private sale), we may never know.

Corinne Cain of SavvyCollector.com

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