Saturday, February 15, 2020

Top 30 most expensive paintings


Photo source: Wikimedia Commons

This post is a list of the top 30 most expensive paintings by sale price. The painting above is Meules by Claude Monet (1890). Data source: Wikipedia

1. Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi ($450 million)
2. Willem de Kooning - Interchange ($300 million)
3. Paul Cézanne - The Card Players ($250 million)
4. Paul Gauguin - Nafea Faa Ipoipo ($210 million)
5. Jackson Pollock - Number 17A ($200 million)
6.  Mark Rothko - No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) ($186 million)
7. Gustav Klimt - Wasserschlangen ($183 million)
8. Rembrandt - Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit ($180 million)
9. Pablo Picasso - Les Femmes d'Alger ($179 million)
10. Amedeo Modigliani - Nu couche ($170 million)
11. Roy Lichtenstein - Masterpiece ($165 million)
12. Amedeo Modigliani - Nu couche (sur le cote gauche) ($157 million)
13. Pablo Picasso - Le Reve ($155 million)
14. Gustav Klimt - Adele Bloch-Bauer II ($150 million)
15. Francis Bacon - Three Studies of Lucian Freud ($142 million)
16. Qi Baishi - Twelve Landscapes Screens ($140 million)
17. Jackson Pollock - No. 5, 1948 ($140 million)
18. Willem de Kooning - Woman III ($137 million)
19. Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I ($135 million)
20. Paul Gaugin - Otahi ($120 million)
21. Edvard Munch - The Scream ($119 million)
22. Amedeo Modigliani - Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion ($118 million)
23. Pablo Picasso - Young Girl with a Flower Basket ($115 million)
24. Claude Monet - Meules ($110 million)
25. Jean-Michel Basquiat - Untitled ($110 million)
26. Jasper Johns - Flag ($110 million)
27. Pablo Picasso - Nude, Green Leaves and Bust ($106 million)
28. Barnett Newman - Anna's Light ($105 million)
29. Andy Warhol - Silver Car Crash ($105 million)
30. Pablo Picasso - Garcon a la pipe ($104 million)