Jenny Saville (1970)

7. Jenny Saville (1970) with $12.4 million for Propped (1992), sold at Sotheby's in 2018, the British artist is the world's most expensive living woman. Her self-portrait shattered the canon of female beauty and convinced collector Charles Saatchi to buy it for the famous 1997 exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists at the Royal Academy in London.