Interesting article on the site ARTinvestment.RU
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According to expert estimates, in 2008 the top 10 best artists on the annual volume of auction sales * were:
Pablo Picasso (262 million dollars);
Francis Bacon (256 million);
Andy Warhol (236 million dollars);
Damien Hirst (230 million);
Claude Monet (174 million dollars);
Alberto Giacometti (132 million dollars);
Gerhard Richter (122 million dollars);
Edgar Degas (111 million dollars);
Lucio Fontana (95 million);
Yves Klein (91 million dollars).
Article "Top 10 artists on the auction turnover of money in 2008" can be seen here.
http://artinvestment.ru/invest/ratin..._artprice.html