In a single week, collectors spent a whopping $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses. While that $236 million Klimt portrait made headlines, plenty of other paintings and sculptures sold for sums that might surprise you.
Can you guess which of these works sold for more?
Note: Listed sale prices include auction fees.
Image credits: “Paradise Pies (VI): Red” via Sotheby’s; “Untitled” via Christie’s; “From our side” via Christie’s; “TAGOMIZOR” via Christie’s; “Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)” via Sotheby’s; “Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee)” via Sotheby’s; “Cowboy Eating with Shoulder Hole” via Sotheby’s; “Untitled (Cowboy)” via Christie’s; “A Clear Unspoken Granted Magic” via Christie’s; “Sarah” via Phillips; “Modern Painting Triptych II” via Sotheby’s; “Nude with Blue Hair, State I” via Christie’s; “Abstraktes Bild” via Christie’s; “Sunflower V” via Christie’s; “Wall Relief with Bird” via Christie’s; “Hulk (Rock)” via Sotheby’s; “America” via Sotheby’s; gold by MirageC via Getty Images.
Zachary Small contributed reporting. Produced by Josephine Sedgwick.
