Artists With the Most Paintings Among the Most Expensive Ever Sold

Source: Wikipedia - List of most expensive paintings

Artists With the Most Paintings Among the Most Expensive Ever Sold

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Key Findings

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Pablo Picasso leads in Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list with 18.

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Average Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list: 6.50 · median: 5.

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Gap: Pablo Picasso is 6× larger than Titian.

About This Dataset

Artists With the Most Paintings Among the Most Expensive Ever Sold

Wikipedia's list of the most expensive paintings records 127 sales. This chart counts how many of those paintings are by each artist, showing artists with three or more.

Analysis

Pablo Picasso has 18 paintings on the list, more than any other artist, ahead of Vincent van Gogh with 11. The list covers 43 different artists, and the 14 shown here account for 91 of its 127 paintings.

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14 categories · 1 year

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Pablo Picasso

Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list · All Time

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Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia - List of most expensive paintings
Coverage: 14 entities · 14 observations
Measure: Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list
Last updated: 10 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

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Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

14 records · Paintings on the most-expensive-paintings list · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Pablo Picasso	18
🥈	Vincent van Gogh	11
🥉	Mark Rothko	9
4	Andy Warhol	9
5	Gustav Klimt	7
6	Willem de Kooning	5
7	Francis Bacon	5
8	Claude Monet	5
9	Paul Cézanne	4
10	Paul Gauguin	4
11	Amedeo Modigliani	4
12	Jean-Michel Basquiat	4
13	Jackson Pollock	3
14	Titian	3

Data Sources & References

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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings Visit ↗

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