The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag.
[1] This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale.
(in millions of USD) (in millions of USD) This is a list of progressive records of the highest price ever paid at auction for the work of an artist who was living at time of sale.
The current record price is US$91 million for Jeff Koons's 1986 sculpture, Rabbit, set in 2019.
The current record price for a painting is $90 million for David Hockney's 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), set the prior year.