All-time most expensive artworks sold at auction 2025| ��ƽ��

Most expensive artworks sold at auction worldwide as of November 2025 (in million U.S. dollars)

Artist, work, and (year of creation)	Millions of U.S. Dollars
Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi (~1490-1500)	450.3
Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-1916)	236.4
Andy Warhol - Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964)	195
Pablo Picasso - Les Femmes d'Alger "Version O" (1955)	179.4
Amedeo Modigliani - Nu Couché (1917/1918)	170.4
Amedeo Modigliani - Reclining Nude (on Her Left Side) (1917)	157.2
Georges Seurat - Models (Small Version) (1888)	149
Francis Bacon - Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)	142.4
Alberto Giacometti - Pointing Man (1947)	141.3
Qi Baishi - Twelve Screens of Landscapes (1925)	140.8
Pablo Picasso - Woman with a Watch (1932)	139.3
Paul Cézanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire (1888–90)	137.7
René Magritte - Empire of Light (1954)	121
Edvard Munch - The Scream (1895)	119.9
Vincent van Gogh - Orchard with Cypresses (1888)	117

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2025

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as of November 19, 2025

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The years of sale are as follows:

Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi��
Christie's (2017)

Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
Sotheby's (2025)

Andy Warhol - Shot Sage Blue Marilyn��
Christie's (2022)

Pablo Picasso - Les Femmes d'Alger "Version O"��
Christie's (2015)

Amedeo Modigliani - Nu CouchéChristie's (2015)��

Amedeo Modigliani - Reclining Nude (on Her Left Side)
Sotheby's (2018)

Georges Seurat - Models (Small Version)��
Christie's (2022)

Francis Bacon - Three Studies of Lucian Freud��
Christie's (2013)

Alberto Giacometti - Pointing Man
Christie's (2015)

Qi Baishi - Twelve Screens of Landscapes
Poly International Auction Co., Ltd. (2017)

Pablo Picasso - Woman with a Watch
Sotheby's (2023)

Paul Cézanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire
Christie's (2022)

René Magritte - Empire of Light
Christie's (2024)

Edvard Munch - The Scream
Sotheby's (2012)

Vincent van Gogh - Orchard with Cypresses
Christie's (2022)

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In November 2025, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold at Sotheby's for 236.4 million U.S. dollars. While this made Klimt's painting the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, its sale fell significantly short of the record. This was set in 2017 with the sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi for a staggering 450.3 million U.S. dollars.