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A Jackson Pollock the painting sold for $181.2m (£135.3m) at Christie’s in New York.
Monday’s sale made No. 7A, 1948 the fourth cheapest work sold at auction, according to ARTnews.
The previous record sale for a Pollock work was $61.2m, set in 2021. Other abstract expressionist works have sold privately for up to $200m.
“It is this work where Pollock finally frees himself from the shackles of the ordinary easel painting and creates one of the most famous paintings in the history of art,” Christie’s said in a statement.
On a busy day at the auction house, Danaïde, a bronze head by Romanian-born artist Constantin Brâncuşi circa 1913 sold for $107.6m, surpassing its previous record of $71.2m set in 2018.
No 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe) by US artist Mark Rothko sold for $98.4m, and Portrait of Madame K by Catalan artist Joan Miró for $53.5m.
The sale broke the previous record for Rothko ($86.9m) and Miró ($37m) set in 2012.
Monday’s sale follows a series of auctions launched at Sotheby’s in November last year.
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, painted by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt between 1914 and 1916, sold for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive work ever sold at auction.
The Dream (The Bed), 1940, a solo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, sold for $54.7m, a record for a woman’s portrait.
The most expensive painting sold at auction is Salvator Mundi, a Renaissance work by Leonardo da Vinci, which was bought for $450m in 2017.
