3. Riot (1990) by Christopher Wool price tag of $29.9 Million
This artist was born in 1955, and despite being a psychiatrist and a molecular biologist, he tried the art business as well.
He is famous for his paintings that boats large, dark letters made from stencils.
In February of 2012, his word painting of the word “FOOL” sold for $7.7 million at a Christie’s London auction.
Then, in November of 2013, Wool’s Apocalypse Now (1988) sold for $26.4 million at an auction by Christie’s New York. The impressive sales were exceeded in 2015 when Sotheby’s New York sold Riot (1990) for $29.9 million.
Sotheby’s described the work as “the very quintessence of his [Wool’s] most immediately recognizable and significant body of work.”
