Most Expensive Sculptures Ever Sold at Auction
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Most Expensive Sculptures Ever Sold at AuctionGiacometti'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.
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- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of Most Expensive Sculptures
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Auction Price (USD)
- Last updated
- 12 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- 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.
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