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The Guinness Book of Records said that despite the crisis in the art market, auctions of high-quality works continue to break historical figures, but the all-time record is still held by Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", which Christie's sold to the Saudi royal family in 2017 for $450.3 million.
The latest high point was reached this week at Sotheby's, where Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" from the Leonard Lauder collection sold for $236 million, a record for a modern artist, Ansa reported.
A day later, Frida Kahlo set a new record for the artist: her work "El sueño" was sold for $54.7 million.
20th-century art continues to attract strong interest, Ansa emphasizes.
Before the Klimt sale, Andy Warhol's "Blue Marilyn" sold for $195 million at Christie's in 2022, surpassing the $179.4 million price for Picasso's "Women of Algiers" in 2015.
The circle of artists whose works exceed the value of $100 million includes Modigliani, Giacometti, Cézanne, Magritte and Vincent Van Gogh, as well as Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose skull painting from 1982 sold for $138 million in 2017.
Kahlo is now the most expensive female artist.
The record for a female sculpture is still held by "Spider" by Louise Bourgeois, sold at Sotheby's auction house in 2023 for nearly $33 million.
The market is less favorable for classical artists: the exception is Botticelli's "Tondo", which reached $92 million at Sotheby's in 2021, the second highest price for a work by an old master after "Salvator Mundi".
The most expensive collection is that of tech mogul Paul Allen, sold at Christie's for $1.6 billion, while the collection of Harry and Linda Macklow was sold at Sotheby's in 2021 for $922 million.
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