THE ART MARKET LEADERS 2008

According to Artprice, the Top 10 ranking art market heavyweights in 2008 were :
1 – Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) with a total of sales of $262m for 1,764 Sold Lots at public auctions or an average value per sale of 148,000 dollars
2 – Francis BACON (1909-1992) with a total of sales of $256m for 100 Sold Lots or an average value per sale of $ 2.56 million
3 – Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) with a total of sales of $236m for 1,164 Sold Lots or an average value of $ 202,000

4 – Damien HIRST (1965) with a total of sales of $230m for 445 Sold Lots or an average value of $ 516,000
5 – Claude MONET (1840-1926) with global sales of $174m for 25 Sold Lots or an average value of $ 6.96 million
6 – Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) with global sales of $132m for 111 Sold Lots or an average value of $1.18 million
7 – Gerhard RICHTER (1932) with global sales of $122m for 166 Sold Lots with an average value of $ 734,000
8 – Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) with global sales of $111m for 81 Sold Lots with an average value of $ 1.3 million
9 – Lucio FONTANA (1899-1968) with global sales of $95m for 227 Sold Lots with an average value of $ 418,000
10 – Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) wtih global sales of $91m for 59 Sold Lots with an average value of $ 1.54 million