Artists With the Most Paintings Among the Most Expensive Ever Sold
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.
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: 7 · median: 5.
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Gap: Pablo Picasso is 6× larger than Titian.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
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
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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