Get two issues of Forbes for FREE! Help | Connect | Sign up | Log in Most Read on Forbes INVESTING | 4/26/2013 @ 6:11PM | 716 views Top Selling Artists at Auction in Miró A photographer looks at Pablo Picasso's 'Deux nus couches' at Christie's auction house in Hong Kong on April 2, 2012. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Pablo Picasso was the top selling artist at auction by value in the first quarter of 2013 with sales of $87.6 million, according to a recent artnet ($44.9 million), Joan Miró ($44.3 million), Amedeo Modigliani ($43.1 million), Jean- Michel Basquiat ($42.3 million), Francis Bacon ($36.8 million), Claude Monet ($30.2 million), René Magritte ($29.2 million), Egon Schiele ($28.0 million) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir ($22.2 million). Plenty of the same names that populated last year's list pop up again, although Andy Warhol didn't make the top 10 in the first quarter, after finishing 2012 at the top of artnet's ranking with $380.5 million of sales. Nor did any Chinese artists make the top 10, when Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Li Keran all featured in the full year 2012 results. Obviously, you can't read too much into quarterly results, particularly when the sale of just one multi- million dollar painting can assure a high ranking, which is the certainly true of Modigliani after his portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne sold for $42 million at Christie's in London this February. That's clearly not the case for Picasso, though. 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Does this mean that Picasso is a great investment? Not necessarily. For example, a March Report from Beautiful Asset Advisors, using data from the Mei Moses family of art indices, showed that Picasso's Nature Morte Aux Tulipes, which sold for $41.5 million in November 2012, produced a compound annual return of 3% for the seller, who bought it for $28.6 million in 2000. That's not bad on the face of it, given the time period involved, but it doesn't take into account transaction costs, or storage, insurance or other ongoing costs. There are more Picassos coming to auction in the New York Impressionist and Modern Art sales in a couple of weeks, so watch this space. Follow me on Twitter or find me on Facebook. Print Report Corrections Reprints & Permissions From Around the Web Kathryn Tully Contributor Follow(50) I've worked as either a journalist, editor or columnist for 15 years and I write about art, investing, and where those two worlds collide. 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