The New York Times has a story on the top artists by total sales in 2006. Picasso rings in as the top total seller, at a whopping $339.2 million, topping the charts for the 10th straight year. The top selling individual painting was Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (shown above), which set a new record at $135 million. The top ten sellers for 2006 are:
- Pablo Picasso ($339.2 million)
- Andy Warhol ($199.4 million)
- Gustav Klimt ($184.2 million)
- Willem de Kooning ($107.4 million)
- Amadeo Modigliani ($90.7 million)
- Marc Chagall ($89 million)
- Egon Schiele ($79.1 million)
- Paul Gauguin ($62.3 million)
- Henri Matisse ($59.7 million)
- Roy Lichtenstein ($59.7 million)
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