Top 500 contemporary artists: #1 to #50
| Rank | Artist | Country of birth | Auction turnover | Sold lots | Highest Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BASQUIAT Jean-Michel (1960-1988) | US | $139,476,214 | 75 | $57,285,000 |
| 2 | WOOL Christopher (1955) | US | $84,024,644 | 42 | $16,965,000 |
| 3 | KOONS Jeff (1955) | US | $58,502,501 | 116 | $15,285,000 |
| 4 | PRINCE Richard (1949) | US | $55,880,910 | 69 | $9,685,000 |
| 5 | DOIG Peter (1959) | GB | $44,659,183 | 63 | $16,346,086 |
| 6 | NARA Yoshitomo (1959) | JP | $31,713,367 | 219 | $3,413,000 |
| 7 | STINGEL Rudolf (1956) | IT | $28,445,055 | 26 | $3,550,000 |
| 8 | HARING Keith (1958-1990) | US | $24,259,022 | 352 | $5,565,747 |
| 9 | ZENG Fanzhi (1964) | CN | $22,613,003 | 32 | $3,910,368 |
| 10 | KIEFER Anselm (1945) | DE | $21,122,129 | 48 | $3,273,408 |
| 11 | CATTELAN Maurizio (1960) | IT | $19,838,753 | 62 | $17,189,000 |
| 12 | ZHANG Xiaogang (1958) | CN | $16,425,698 | 41 | $4,954,000 |
| 13 | BRADFORD Mark (1961) | US | $16,259,564 | 10 | $5,775,437 |
| 14 | HIRST Damien (1965) | GB | $15,800,811 | 340 | $1,739,659 |
| 15 | GHENIE Adrian (1977) | RO | $15,331,356 | 24 | $4,500,013 |
| 16 | TANSEY Mark (1949) | US | $15,298,000 | 5 | $5,626,000 |
| 17 | KELLEY Mike (1954-2012) | US | $13,248,793 | 23 | $3,301,000 |
| 18 | LIU Wei (1965) | CN | $13,165,912 | 16 | $5,010,360 |
| 19 | MURAKAMI Takashi (1962) | JP | $12,791,202 | 355 | $2,014,432 |
| 20 | CHEN Yifei (1946-2005) | CN | $12,294,829 | 25 | $1,209,754 |
| 21 | KAPOOR Anish (1954) | IN | $12,019,008 | 57 | $1,205,000 |
| 22 | CONDO George (1957) | US | $11,795,166 | 72 | $1,330,000 |
| 23 | AI Weiwei (1957) | CN | $11,684,626 | 41 | $2,517,000 |
| 24 | LIGON Glenn (1960) | US | $11,206,839 | 25 | $2,909,000 |
| 25 | FÖRG Günther (1952-2013) | DE | $10,948,343 | 193 | $815,000 |
| 26 | SAVILLE Jenny (1970) | GB | $10,315,277 | 5 | $9,069,466 |
| 27 | GUYTON Wade (1972) | US | $9,857,717 | 19 | $2,685,000 |
| 28 | BRADLEY Joe (1975) | US | $9,108,994 | 17 | $3,077,000 |
| 29 | GONZALEZ-TORRES Felix (1957-1996) | CU | $8,691,041 | 7 | $7,669,000 |
| 30 | KIPPENBERGER Martin (1953-1997) | DE | $8,098,789 | 34 | $3,767,876 |
| 31 | GORMLEY Antony (1950) | GB | $7,931,658 | 55 | $730,000 |
| 32 | LONGO Robert (1953) | US | $7,112,748 | 113 | $1,224,236 |
| 33 | RAUCH Neo (1960) | DE | $7,054,068 | 33 | $1,324,445 |
| 34 | DUMAS Marlene (1953) | ZA | $6,959,083 | 44 | $3,250,000 |
| 35 | GROTJAHN Mark (1968) | US | $6,840,638 | 14 | $1,925,000 |
| 36 | RUBY Sterling (1972) | DE | $6,807,210 | 30 | $836,630 |
| 37 | LIU Xiaodong (1963) | CN | $6,371,350 | 9 | $1,804,350 |
| 38 | SHI Chong (1963) | CN | $6,150,442 | 3 | $5,954,355 |
| 39 | AUERBACH Tauba (1981) | US | $6,085,090 | 15 | $2,180,405 |
| 40 | GOBER Robert (1954) | US | $5,998,850 | 8 | $2,285,000 |
| 41 | SCULLY Sean (1945) | IE | $5,787,965 | 63 | $1,201,318 |
| 42 | SHERMAN Cindy (1954) | US | $5,767,866 | 77 | $701,000 |
| 43 | CRAGG Tony (1949) | GB | $5,477,077 | 49 | $684,604 |
| 44 | VENTURA Ronald (1973) | PH | $5,374,761 | 27 | $1,016,520 |
| 45 | ZHANG Enli (1965) | CN | $5,162,420 | 23 | $471,882 |
| 46 | ZHOU Chunya (1955) | CN | $5,149,567 | 32 | $852,564 |
| 47 | OEHLEN Albert (1954) | DE | $5,097,678 | 22 | $1,768,247 |
| 48 | SCHÜTTE Thomas (1954) | DE | $5,077,412 | 24 | $1,805,000 |
| 49 | MAO Yan (1968) | CN | $4,902,944 | 13 | $1,217,760 |
| 50 | BORREMANS Michaël (1963) | BE | $4,847,188 | 13 | $3,139,280 |
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