ART MARKETNEWS
TOP Selling Visual Artists 2011
DATE: 30 DEC 2011
Pop artist Andy Warhol tops the list of the most successful artists at auction in 2011. The list was compiled as a representation of sales figures achieved at the major auction houses, for the top 10 selling international artists in 2011. All are painters. Sculpture has not been represented in this survey. Four are American, One Britain, four French (or lived in France as their primary residence) , one German.
THE LIST
Andy Warhol
$585,288,283 USD
Pablo Picasso
$558,573,721 USD
Gerhard Richter
$166,587,189 USD
Claude Monet
$155,882,401 USD
Roy Lichtenstein
$132,774,752 USD
Henri Matisse
$130,778,869 USD
Francis Bacon
$128,852,003 USD
Amedeo Modigliani
$111,096,945 USD
Jean-Michel Basquiat
$106,321,559 USD
Mark Rothko
$105,954,786 USD
