Most expensive lots sold by Christie's worldwide 2021, by price realized
Pablo Picasso's canvas "Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)" was the most expensive lot sold by auction house Christie's in 2021. The artist's oil painting, sold during a 20th century evening sale in New York, recorded a price realized of 103.4 million U.S. dollars, the highest figure for any work sold at auction that year. Meanwhile, Beeple's "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" was the most expensive lot by a living artist sold by Christie's in 2021. The artwork, a digital collage stored on the Ethereum blockchain as a non-fungible token (NFT), was sold on March 2021 in the first major auction of crypto art worldwide.
