Market Data/2022
The Art Auction Market in 2022
In 2022, 22,377 lots sold at auction for a combined $7.1B in hammer prices, up 42% from 2021. The average sold lot fetched $317,013; the year's top result reached $195.0M.
Lots sold
22,377
Total volume
$7.1B
+42% vs 2021
Average price
$317,013
Top sale
$195.0M
Top artists by auction volume, 2022
| # | Artist | Volume | Lots sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Monet | $525.0M | 22 |
| 2 | Andy Warhol | $414.9M | 393 |
| 3 | Pablo Picasso | $305.6M | 307 |
| 4 | Francis Bacon | $195.2M | 46 |
| 5 | Cy Twombly | $164.7M | 29 |
| 6 | David Hockney | $154.5M | 224 |
| 7 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | $148.7M | 30 |
| 8 | Gerhard Richter | $135.8M | 100 |
| 9 | René Magritte | $133.2M | 30 |
| 10 | Yayoi Kusama | $117.8M | 109 |
Query this data programmatically
Every figure on this page is computed from the Art Market API's auction database.Lot-level 2022 auction results is available as structured JSON, filterable by date, price, category, and more.
curl "https://api.artmarketapi.com/api/v1/auction_records?start_date=2022-01-01&end_date=2022-12-31&limit=10" \
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