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A list of the most expensive paintings in history. Prices are adjusted to inflation and will be updated in the future when new artworks make it onto the top 10 list of most expensive pantings sold with public pricetag.
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10 Most Expensive Artworks in Historyv10 Most Expensive
Artworks in History
10 Most Expensive Artworks in Historyv10 Most Expensive
Artworks in HistoryHighest price paid at auctions or private sales (inflation adjusted)
10 Most Expensive Artworks in History
The Card Players app. $259 Million
BUY IT1.
The Card Players Paul Cézanne 1892/93
Bought by Royal Family of Qatar$259-$320 Million (April 2011)
!The painting was done on an 8' × 4' sheet of
fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like
appearance. !
It is speculated that David Geffen (the previous owner - founder of Geffen Records and co-founder
of Dreamworks SKG) sold the painting, along with two others, to raise enough funds to bid for the Los
Angeles Times.
No.5 Jackson Pollock 1948
Bought by David Martinez (managing partner of Fintech Advisory)
!The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the
French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early
1890s, there are five paintings in the series. Keep in mind though guys, the Royal Family of Qatar didn't
buy the series - they bought just that one painting for ~259 million).
Woman IIIWillem de Kooning 1953
Bought by Steven A. Cohen !
The buyer, Steven A. Cohen, is an American hedge fund manager who has a net worth of 9.3 billion dollars
(woah!), In November 2012, he began to be implicated in a large criminal insider trading scandal. In July 2013,
SAC was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with failing to prevent insider trading.
!He is an avid art collector, and to date, Cohen has
bought around $700 million worth of artwork; in 2003, the New York Times reported that in a five-year period,
Cohen spent 20% of his income at art auctions.
Le RêvePablo Picasso 1932
Bought by Steven A. Cohen 2013 !
While Wynn was showing the painting to his friends, apparently about to reveal the now still officially
undisclosed previous owner (see above), he put his elbow through the canvas, puncturing it in the left forearm of the figure and creating a six-inch tear. Ephron offered as an
explanation that Wynn uses wild gestures while speaking and has retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision. Later, Wynn said that he took the event as a sign
not to sell the painting. !
After a $90,000 repair, the painting was re-valued at $85 million, however Cohen still bought it this year for $155
Million - weird right?
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I $154.9 Million
BUY IT5.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Gustav Klimt 1907
Bought by Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie !
This painting has had a pretty crazy history, and without trying to go into too much detail: The picture was painted in Vienna and commissioned by Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. Adele Bloch-Bauer (Ferdinand's wife), in her will, asked
her husband to donate the Klimt paintings to the Austrian State Gallery upon his death. She died in 1925 from meningitis. When the Nazis took over Austria, her
widowed husband had to flee to Switzerland. His property, including the Klimt paintings, was confiscated.
In his 1945 testament, Bloch-Bauer designated his nephew and nieces, including Maria Altmann, as the
inheritors of his estate.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent Van Gogh 1890
Bought by Ryoei Saito 1990 !
This painting depicts Dr. Paul Gachet, who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life.There are two authenticated versions of the portrait, both painted in June 1890 at Auvers. Both show Doctor
Gachet sitting at a table and leaning his head on his right arm, but they are easily differentiated in color
and style.
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876
Bought by Ryoei Saito 1990 !
From 1879 to 1894 the painting was in the collection of the French painter Gustave Caillebotte; when he died it became the property of the French Republic
as payment for death duties. From 1896 to 1929 the painting hung in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris.
From 1929 it hung in the Musée du Louvre until it was transferred to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986.
Garçon à la pipePablo Picasso 1905
Bought by Barilla Group 2004 !
Many art critics have stated that the painting's high sale price has much more to do with the artist's name than with the merit or historical importance of the painting.
The Washington Post's article on the sale contained the following characterization of the reaction:
“Picasso expert Pepe Karmel, reached in New York the morning after the sale, was waxing wroth about the whole affair. "I'm stunned," he said, "that a pleasant,
minor painting could command a price appropriate to a real masterwork by Picasso. This just shows how much
the marketplace is divorced from the true values of art."
The screamEdvard Munch 1895
Bought by Leon Black 2012 !
The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the oil, tempera, and pastel
version of The Scream in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In
2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years
later.
FlagJasper Johns 1954
Bought by Steven A. Cohen 2010 !
An encaustic painting is a hot wax painting which involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The US flag was in the news
repeatedly in 1954. The McCarthy hearings came to a close on 17 June 1954, only three days after Flag Day.
!
10 Most Expensive Artworks in HistoryvSummary
10 Most Expensive Artworks in Historyt
Steven A. Cohen, own 3/10 of the most expensive paintings ever sold as of today [May,2014]
10 Most Expensive Artworks in Historyt
Steven A. Cohen, own 3/10 of the most expensive paintings ever sold as of today [May,2014]
With an art Collection worth more than
1,000,000,000$
10 Most Expensive Artworks in Historyt
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