The Pink Star, the most espensive diamond ever sold at auction made $83,171,381. (Click on image to enlarge it).
PABLO PICASSO
1881 – 1973 FEMME ASSISE PRÈS D’UNE FENÊTRE was the most expensive painting sold at auction in Europe this year. It made £28,601,250.
Auction sales grew by 19% at Sotheby’s in 2013 reaching $5.2 billion dollars. Sales of Asian art, jewellery, Impressionist and Modern Art outpaced the market by significant margins according to chairman and ceo Bill Ruprecht. Celebrating 40 years in Asia in 2013 the company’s sales of Asian art grew by 50 per cent. This year Sotheby’s sold the most expensive diamond and the most expensive printed book ever at auction.
Sales of Impressionist and Modern art grew by 21 per cent. Picasso’s Femme Assise pres d’une Fenetre was the most expensive artwork sold at auction in Europe this year. It made £28.6 million in London in February. Sales of jewellery grew by 32 per cent and the November evening auction of Contemporary Art in New York brought $380,642,000, the highest total of any sale in company history.