http://www.jeffkoons.com"TOP TEN ARTISTS BY LOT 2005–2015
Our series of most expensive living artists continues with the Americans. Though our list from this past year, which was also drawn from the artnet Price Database, looked at auctions as far back as 1988, this year’s list is limited to the past ten years. Nonetheless, the lists are comparable because most of the auction highs that determine the artists’ placement on them have happened just in the past few years. And as you might expect, there hasn’t been all that much movement.
Koons remains high on the list, and on our radar, having had his 2014 blockbuster retrospective close out the old Whitney Museum building. Perennial favorites Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha still hover at the top. 2015 sees Cady Noland move up several spots and another artist join the list anew. Due to the re-structuring of our parameters, Bruce Nauman is notably absent this year—his record at auction was achieved in 2001 with the sale of Henry Moore bound to fail (Back view) (1967), which sold for $9.9 million at Christie’s. (All sales are at New York auction houses unless otherwise noted.) With plans for his MoMA retrospective announced for 2018, he might be back on in the coming years."
https://news.artnet.com/market/artnet-newss-top-10-expensive-living-american-artists-2015-323871 As an average person one may wonder why such an artist is so expensive. The answer: he obviously has ideas which are that expensive.
Art is always also an expression of present-day perception. And the perception of Jeff Koon has obviously at the moment this value.
