Most Expensive Sculptures Ever Sold at Auction

About This Dataset

The highest prices ever paid for a sculpture at public auction, led by Alberto Giacometti's bronze L'Homme au doigt at $141.3 million in 2015. Giacometti works occupy three of the top four places, underlining his dominance of the sculpture market.

✨ AI Insight

Giacometti's L'Homme au doigt ($141.3M) leads clearly, over $30M ahead of the next work, and his figures fill three of the top four - L'Homme qui marche I ($104.3M) and Chariot ($101M) - confirming his singular status at auction. Brâncuși's Danaïde ($107.6M, 2026) is the only sculpture to break into that Giacometti group. Below $100M the market thins quickly: Jeff Koons' stainless-steel Rabbit ($91.1M) is the sole contemporary and non-bronze entry, while Brâncuși and Modigliani round out the list. Every top sculpture is by a European modernist except Koons, showing that, as with paintings, a handful of early-20th-century names command almost all of the very highest prices.

Source: Wikipedia - List of Most Expensive Sculptures

Key Findings

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L'Homme au doigt - Giacometti (2015) leads with 141 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 93 · median: 96.

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Gap in All Time: L'Homme au doigt - Giacometti (2015) is 2.4× larger than Tête - Modigliani (2010).