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The most expensive Delacroix ever sold

The most expensive Delacroix ever sold is Tigre jouant avec une tortue: $9.88 million at Christie's New York in 2018. Famous works such as Liberty Leading the People, The Death of Sardanapalus and The Barque of Dante are in public collections, so they are not for sale and have no price.

Lived
1798–1863
From
French
Movement
Romanticism
Worked in
Paris · Champrosay
Portrait of Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix's record$9.88MTigre jouant avec une tortue · 2018

Delacroix's famous works and their prices

  • Liberty Leading the People by Eugène DelacroixLiberty Leading the People1830 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
  • The Death of Sardanapalus by Eugène DelacroixThe Death of Sardanapalus1827 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
  • The Barque of Dante by Eugène DelacroixThe Barque of Dante1822 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale
  • The Women of Algiers by Eugène DelacroixThe Women of Algiers1834 · Musée du Louvre, ParisNot for sale

“Not for sale” means a public collection holds the work. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

Delacroix next to other artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research.

  1. Toulouse-Lautrec$22.4MLa Blanchisseuse · 2005
  2. Velázquez$17MSaint Rufina · 2007
  3. Goya$16.4MPortraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso · 2023
  4. El Greco$14MSaint Dominic in Prayer · 2013
  5. Delacroix$9.88MTigre jouant avec une tortue · 2018
  6. Corot$9.01MVenise, vue du Quai des Esclavons · 2018
  7. Waterhouse$9MSt Cecilia · 2000
  8. Cassatt$7.49MYoung Lady in a Loge Gazing to Right · 2022
  9. David$7.21MPortrait of Ramel de Nogaret · 2008

Bars are to scale within this list. Source for Delacroix's record: en.wikipedia.org.

About Eugène Delacroix

French painter and the leading figure of Romanticism in French art, who set colour, movement and emotional force against the linear discipline of Neoclassicism. He took subjects from Dante, Byron and Shakespeare, from contemporary politics in "Liberty Leading the People" of 1830, and from a diplomatic journey to Morocco and Algeria in 1832 that supplied material for the rest of his career. His last great undertaking was the mural cycle for the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, completed in 1861. His handling of colour was studied closely by the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists after his death in 1863, and the journal he kept for much of his life remains a major document of 19th-century art.

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Questions

What is the most expensive Delacroix ever sold?

Tigre jouant avec une tortue, which sold for $9.88 million at Christie's New York in 2018. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

How much is a Delacroix painting worth?

It depends on the work. The highest documented sale is $9.88 million for Tigre jouant avec une tortue. Works in public collections are not for sale.

Where can I see Delacroix's paintings?

Among the works here: the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Who was Eugène Delacroix?

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). French painter and the leading figure of Romanticism in French art, who set colour, movement and emotional force against the linear discipline of Neoclassicism. He took subjects from Dante, Byron and Shakespeare, from contemporary politics in "Liberty Leading the People" of 1830, and from a diplomatic journey to Morocco and Algeria in 1832 that supplied material for the rest of his career. His last great undertaking was the mural cycle for the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, completed in 1861. His handling of colour was studied closely by the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists after his death in 1863, and the journal he kept for much of his life remains a major document of 19th-century art.

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