Country Rock - Peter Doig |
He seems to have beaten Damien Hirst as the most expensive painter. A 195X270 cm landscape of a rainbow bridge that arches over a bridge in rural Canada titled Country Rock (Wing-Mirror) set a record for Doig and others. It was painted in 1999. His first major exhibition in Canada was in 2001. Doig now lives and works in Trinidad.
Price: $15.5 million |
The Golden Calf - Damien Hirst |
The world’s richest living artist, this Britisher is worth close to $1 billion though Doig may be close to beating him. He set record sales in 2008 with 223 works from the exhibition ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ for $198 million through Sotheby’s—the most expensive auction of works by a single artist. The Golden Calf sold for £10.3 million. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. In October 2014, Hirst exhibited big scale capsules, pills and medicines at the Paul Stolper Gallery titled Schizophrenogenesis. Price: £10.3 million |
Balloon Dog - Jeff Koons |
Art millionaires seem to be becoming aplenty, and American artist Jeff Koons is estimated to be worth $500 million, half of Hirst’s net worth. His signature style like Subodh Gupta’s is reproducing everyday objects such as balloon animals made in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. On November 12, 2013, Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange) was sold at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City above its high $55 million estimate, making him the creator of the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. Price: $58.4 million |