List of most expensive paintings
Adjusted price (in millions) | Original price (in millions) | Painting | Artist | Year | Date of sale | Rank at sale | Seller | Buyer | Auction house |
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$151.2 | $140 | No. 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | 2006-11-02 | 1 | David Geffen | Private sale via Sotheby's[4] | |
$148.5 | $137.5 | Woman III | Willem de Kooning | 1953 | 2006-11-18 | 2 | David Geffen | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale via Larry Gagosian [5] |
$144.8 | $135 | Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | Gustav Klimt | 1907 | 2006-06-18 | 1 | Maria Altmann | Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie | Private sale via Christie's[6] |
$139.0 | $82.5 | Portrait of Dr. Gachet | Vincent van Gogh | 1890 | 1990-05-15 | 1 | Siegfried Kramarsky family | Ryoei Saito [7] | Christie's, New York |
$131.6 | $78.1 | Bal du moulin de la Galette[8] | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 1876 | 1990-05-17 | 2 | Betsey Whitney | Ryoei Saito [9] | Sotheby's, New York |
$119.9 | $104.2 | Garçon à la pipe | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | 2004-05-04 | 3 | Greentree foundation(Whitney family) | Guido Barilla? [10] | Sotheby's, New York [11] |
$106.5 | $106.5 | Nude, Green Leaves and Bust | Pablo Picasso | 1932 | 2010-05-04 | 7 | Frances Lasker Brody estate | Christie's, New York [12] | |
$101.3 ++ | $58 plus exchange of works[13] | Portrait of Joseph Roulin | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | 1989-08-01 | 1 | Private collection, Zürich | Museum of Modern Art New York | Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich[14] |
$102.3 | $95.2 | Dora Maar au Chat | Pablo Picasso | 1941 | 2006-05-03 | 4 | Gidwitz family | Boris Ivanishvili? [15] | Sotheby's, New York [16] |
$101.6 | $53.9 | Irises | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | 1987-11-11 | 1 | son of Joan Whitney Payson | Alan Bond [17] | Sotheby's, New York |
$100.5 | $100.0 | Eight Elvises | Andy Warhol | 1963 | 2008-10 | 10 | Annibale Berlingieri | Private sale via Philippe Ségalot [18] | |
$94.9 | $71.5 | Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | 1998-11-19 | 5 | Heirs of Jacques Koerfer | Christie's, New York | |
$94.9 | $87.9 | Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II | Gustav Klimt | 1912 | 2006-11-02 | 9 | Maria Altmann | Christie's, New York | |
$92.7 | $76.7 (£49.5) | Massacre of the Innocents | Peter Paul Rubens | 1611 | 2002-07-10 | 6 | an Austrian family | Kenneth Thomson [19] | Sotheby's, London |
$86.7 | $86.3 | Triptych, 1976 | Francis Bacon | 1976 | 2008-05-14 | 13 | Moueix Family,Château Pétrus[20] | Roman Abramovich [8] | Sotheby's, New York [21] |
$86.3 | $80.0 | False Start [22] | Jasper Johns | 1959 | 2006-10-12 | 10 | David Geffen | Kenneth C. Griffin | Private sale via Richard Gray |
$86.0 | $57 | A Wheatfield with Cypresses | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | 1993-05 | 5 | son of Emil Georg Bührle | Walter H. Annenberg [23] | Private sale via Steven Mazoh |
$85.3 | $49.3 (F300) | Les Noces de Pierrette | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | 1989-11-30 | 3 | Fredrik Roos | Tomonori Tsurumaki | Binoche et Godeau Paris |
$84.1 | $47.85 | Yo, Picasso | Pablo Picasso | 1901 | 1989-05-09 | 2 | Wendell Cherry | Stavros Niarchos | Sotheby's, New York |
$83.7 | $80.0 | Turquoise Marilyn | Andy Warhol | 1964 | 2007-05-20 | 17 | Stefan Edlis | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale via Larry Gagosian [24] |
$80.1 | $80.5 (£40.9) | Le Bassin aux Nymphéas | Claude Monet | 1919 | 2008-06-24 | 19 | J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller | Christie's, London [25] | |
$79.2 | $60.5 | Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier [26] | Paul Cézanne | 1894 | 1999-05-10 | 9 | Whitney Family | Sotheby's, New York | |
$77.0 | $39.7 (£24.75) | Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | Vincent van Gogh | 1888 | 1987-03-30 | 1 | daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty | Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp. | Christie's, London |
$76.2 | $72.8 | White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) | Mark Rothko | 1950 | 2007-05-15 | 20 | David Rockefeller, Sr. | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani[27] | Sotheby's, New York [28] |
$75.1 | $71.7 | Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) | Andy Warhol | 1963 | 2007-05-16 | 21 | Private collection, Zürich | Philip Niarchos | Christie's, New York [29] |
$72.4 | $70.6 (£50) | Diana and Actaeon | Titian | 1556-1559 | 2009-02-01 | 25 | Duke of Sutherland | National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London | Private sale [9] [10][11] |
$71.3 | $68 | The Gross Clinic | Thomas Eakins | 1875 | 2007-04-12 | 20 | Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Private sale |
$70.4 | $40.7 | Au Lapin Agile | Pablo Picasso | 1904 | 1989-11-27 | 5 | daughter of Joan Whitney Payson | Walter H. Annenberg | Sotheby's, New York |
$69.7 | $38.5 (£20.9) | Acrobate et jeune Arlequin [30] | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | 1988-11-28 | 3 | heir of Roger Janssen? | Mitsukoshi | Christie's, London |
$68.8 | $55.0 | Femme aux Bras Croisés | Pablo Picasso | 1902 | 2000-11-08 | 13 | McCormick family, Chicago | Christie's, New York [31] | |
$68.5 | $63.5 | Police Gazette | Willem de Kooning | 1955 | 2006-10-12 | 19 | David Geffen | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale via Richard Gray Gallery |
$65.2 | $48.4 | Le Rêve [32] | Pablo Picasso | 1932 | 1997-11-10 | 11 | Ganz family[12] | Wolfgang Flöttl [13] | Christie's, New York. |
$64.4 | $47.5 | Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat | Vincent van Gogh | 1890 | 1997 | 11 | Stephen Wynn [33] | Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York [34] | |
$64.1 | $49.6 | Femme assise dans un jardin | Pablo Picasso | 1938 | 1999-11-10 | 15 | Robert Saidenberg | Sotheby's, New York | |
$61.9 | $35.2 | Portrait of a Halberdier | Pontormo | 1537 | 1989-05-31 | 5 | Chauncey Devereaux Stillman | Getty Museum | Christie's, New York |
$61.5 | $60.0 | Suprematist Composition | Kazimir Malevich | 1916 | 2008-11-03 | 34 | Heirs of Kazimir Malevich | Sotheby's, New York [35] |