Top 10 best contemporary art auction records Set in May 2023
Louise Bourgeois, Spider, 1996
$32.8 million (Sotheby’s)
Blinky Palermo, Ohne Titel, 1970
$6.4 million (Sotheby’s)
Simone Leigh, Las Meninas II, 2019
$3.1 million (Sotheby’s)
Nicole Eisenman, Night Studio, 2009
$2.4 million (143% over mid-estimate) (Sotheby’s)
El Anatsui, Prophet, 2012
$2.3 million (123% over mid-estimate) (Christie’s)
Diane Arbus, A box of ten photographs, 1973
$1 million (8% under mid-estimate) (Christie’s)
Justin Caguiat, To the approach of beauty its body is fungible, 2020
$787,400 (350% over mid-estimate). (Sotheby’s)
Robin F. Williams, Ice Queen, 2019
$428,400 (243% over mid-estimate). (Christie’s)
Vivan Springford, Untitled (Tanzania Series), 1971
$241,300 (141% over mid-estimate), (Phillips)
Lois Dodd, Burning House with Clapboards, 2007
$215,900 (208% over mid-estimate), (Phillips)
