Key information on auctions in the painting market worldwide 2019-2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 23, 2025

In 2024, 194 global auctions featuring paintings generated over five billion U.S. dollars in revenue. This figure represented an annual decline in revenue of roughly 26 percent. Over the same period, the unsold rate at auctions in the painting market increased by 0.4 percentage points.

Key figures on auctions in the painting market worldwide from 2019 to 2024

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April 2025

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2019 to 2024

Supplementary notes

Data refers to live and hybrid auctions (excluding online-only sales) by Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips that sold paintings and whose total revenue reached at least one million U.S. dollars.

Figures prior to 2022 were previously published by the source.

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