The priciest artworks of 2021
1. $103.4m – Femme Assise près d’une Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932). Pablo Picasso’s portrait (pictured) of his muse “as a winged goddess, a modern-day Nike”, was the only artwork to sell for nine figures in dollar terms last year, according to Christie’s in New York. That was an improvement on 2020, when none breached the $100m mark.
– (1983). Jean-Michel Basquiatpaintings with Christie’s. It was only the second of the three to come to auction, but it didn’t quite reach the $110.5m that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa paid for (1982) in 2017.
