Pablo Picasso’s Femme à la montre (“Woman with a Clock” – 1932) sold last November at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for $139.9 million, is the most expensive work of art to be auctioned in 2023 .

Dame mit Fächer, Gustav Klimt’s last painting fetched a record price of $108.4 million last June in London, becoming the second most expensive work of art at auctions in 2023. In fact, the This painting is the most expensive work ever sold at a European auction.

In 3rd place is one of Claude Monet’s 2-meter-long paintings from the series “Pond with Water Lilies” (“Le bassin aux nymphéas”), which was sold at an auction in New York in early November for $74 million.

The 4th and 5th places are respectively occupied by Basquiat’s painting entitled El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile – 67 million dollars) and the impressionistic landscape “Insel im Attersee” by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for 53 million dollars.

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