World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 1 to 60
Would you change your taste based on value?
Would you paint based on the most expensive paintings in the world, which were sold in our generation? As for me, yes I think you should, if you could, and stop painting those things that the buyers would think that won‘t last. On the other hand, if you can not paint the same high quality, I guess you can just paint whatever you like, because there are basically billions of people in the world, and each one has his own taste in paintings, you just have to find who likes to buy your style
Top 1
Painting: Salvator Mundi, also known as the Male Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year Made: c. 1500
Date of Sale: November 15, 2017
Seller: Dmitry Rybolovlev
Type: Oil on walnut
Dimension: 45.4 cm × 65.6 cm (25.8 in × 19.2 in)
Condition: Restored
Owner: Acquired by by Abu Dhabi'‘s Department of Culture and Tourism for Louvre Abu Dhabi
Top 2
Painting: Interchange
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Year Made: 1955
Date of Sale: September 2015
Seller: David Geffen Foundation
Top 3
Painting: The Card Players
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Year Made: 1892/93
Date of Sale: April 2011
Seller: George Embiricos
Top 4
Painting: Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry)
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Year Made: 1892
Date of Sale: September 2014
Seller: Rudolf Starchelin
Top 5
Painting: Number 17A
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Year Made: 1948
Type: Oil on fiberboard
Date of Sale: September 2015
Seller: David Geffen Foundation
Top 6
Painting: Wasserschlangen
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Year Made: 1904-07
Date of Sale: 2013
Seller: Yves Bouvier
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 7 to 12
Top 7
Painting: No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)
Artist: Mark Rothko
Year Made: 1951
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date of Sale: August 2014
Seller: Cherise Moueix
Top 8
Painting: Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans
Artist: Rembrant
Year Made: 1634
Date of Sale: September 2015
Seller: Eric de Rothschild
Top 9
Painting: Les Femmes d‘Alger (Version O)
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1955
Date of Sale: May 11, 2015
Seller: Private Collection
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 114cmx146.4cm (45in x57.6in)
Location: Private Collection of Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Doha Qatar
Top 10
Painting: Nu couche
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Year Made: 1917/18
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60cm x 92cm (24in x 36in)
Date of Sale: November 9, 2015
Seller: Laura Mattioli Rossi
Top 11
Painting: No. 5, 1948
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Year Made: 1948
Type: oil on fiberboard
Dimensions: 2.4m x1.2m (8ft x 4 ft)
Date of Sale: November 2, 2006
Seller: David Geffen
Top 12
Painting: Woman III
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Year Made: 1953
Dimensions: 172.7 cm × 123.2 cm (68 in × 48.5 in)
Medium: oil on canvas
Date of Sale: November 18, 2006
Seller: David Greffen
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 13 to 18
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Top 13
Painting: Masterpiece
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Year Made: 1962
Dimensions: 137 cm × 137 cm (54 in × 54 in)
Movement: Pop art
Date of Sale: January 2017
Seller: Agnes Grund
Top 14
Painting: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Year Made: 1907
Dimensions: 140 cm × 140 cm (541⁄8 in × 541⁄8 in)
Type: Oil, silver and gold leaf on canvas
Date of Sale: June 18, 2006
Seller: Maria Altmann
Top 15
Painting: Le Reve
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1932
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 130 cm × 97 cm (51 in × 38 in)
Date of Sale: March 26, 2013
Seller: Steve Wynn
Top 16
Painting: Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year Made: 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimension: 67 cm × 56 cm (23.4 in × 22.0 in)
Date of Sale: May 15, 1990
Seller: Siegfried Kramarsky
Top 17
Painting: Nu Couche (sur le cote gauche
Artist: Amadeo Modigliani
Year Made: 1917
Date of Sale: May 15, 2018
Seller:
Top 18
Painting: Adele Bloch Bauer II
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Year Made: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 190 cm × 120 cm (75 in × 47 in) this
Date of Sale: 2016
Seller: Oprah Winfrey
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 19 to 24
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Top 19
Painting: Three Studies of Lucian Freud
Artist: Francis Bacon
Year Made: 1969
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 198 cm × 147.5 cm (78 in × 58 in); for each canvas
Date of Sale: November 12, 2013
Seller:
Top 20
Painting: Bal du Moulin de la Galette
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year Made: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 131 cm × 175 cm (52 in × 69 in)
Date of Sale: May 17, 1990
Seller: Betsey Whitney
Top 21
Painting: Twelve Landscape Screens
Artist: Qi Baishi
Year Made: 1925
Date of Sale: December 17, 2017
Seller:
Top 22
Painting: Garcon a la pipe
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm × 81.3 cm (39.4 in × 32.0 in)
Date of Sale: May 5, 2004
Seller: Greentree Foundation (Whitney family)
Top 23
Painting: The Scream
Artist: Edvard Munch
Year Made: 1895
Type: oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on carboard
Dimensions: 91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in × 28.9 in)
Date of Sale: May 2, 2012
Seller: Petter Olsen
Top 24
Painting: Otahi
Artist: Paul Gaugin
Year Made:1893
Date of Sale: 2013
Seller: Yves Bouvier
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 25 to 30
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Top 25
Painting: Reclining Nude with Blue Cushion
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Year Made: 1917
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 92 cm
Date of Sale: 2012
Seller: Steven A. Cohen
Top 26
Painting: Flag
Artist: Jasper John
Year Made:1958
Date of Sale: March 2010
Seller: Jean-Christopher
Top 27
Painting: Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1932
Dimensions: 162 cm × 130 cm (64 in × 51 in)
Date of Sale: May 4, 2010
Seller: Frances Lasker Brody
Top 28
Painting: Portrait of Joseph Roulin
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Year Made: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81.2 cm × 65.3 cm (32.0 in × 25.7 in)
Date of Sale: August 1, 1989
Seller: Private Collection
Top 29
Painting: Irises
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year Made: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 71 cm × 93 cm (28 in × 36 5⁄8 in)
Date of Sale: November 11, 1987
Seller: John Whitney Payson
Top 30
Painting: Dora Maar au Chat
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1941
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 128.3 cm × 95.3 cm (50.5 in × 37.5 in)
Date of Sale: May 3, 2006
Seller: Gidwitz family
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 31 to 36
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Top 31
Painting:Eight Elvises
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year Made:1963
Type: Silkscreen on canvas
Dimensions: 200 cm × 370 cm (6.5 ft × 12 ft)
Date of Sale: October 2008
Seller: Annibale Belingier
Top 32
Painting: Young with a Flower Basket
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made:1905
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 155 x 66 cm
Date of Sale: May 8,2018
Seller: David and Peggy Rockefeller
Top 33
Painting: Anna’s Light
Artist: Barnett Newman
Year Made: 1968
Date of Sale: October 4, 2013
Seller: DIC Corporation
Top 34
Painting: Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year Made: 1963
Date of Sale: November 13, 2013
Seller:
Top 35
Painting: Untitled
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Year Made: 1982
Date of Sale: May 18, 2017
Seller: Basquiat Family
Top 36
Painting: Meules
Artist: Claude Monet
Year Made: 1890
Date of Sale: May 14, 2019
Seller:
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 37 to 42
Top 37 to 42
Top 37
Painting Portrait de l’artiste sana barbe
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year Made: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 × 31 cm
Date of Sale: November 19, 9198
Seller: Kacques Koerfer
Top 38
Painting: La Montagne sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Chateau Noir
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Year Made: 1904
Date of Sale: Edsel and Eleanor
Seller:
Top 39
Painting: Massacre of the Innocents
Artist: Peter Paul Ruebens
Year Made: 1611
Date of Sale: July 10, 2002
Seller: an Austrian family
Top 40
Painting: Nurse
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Year Made: 1964
Type: oil and magna on canvas
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Date of Sale: November 9, 2015
Seller:
Top 41
Painting: Triptych, 1976
Artist: Francis Bacon
Year Made: 1976
Dimensions: 198 cm × 147.5 cm (78 in × 58 in); each canvas
Date of Sale: May 14,2008
Seller: Jean-Pierre Moueix heirs
Top 42
Painting: Les Noces de Pierette The Marriage of Pierette
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1905
Date of Sale: November 30, 1989
Seller: Fredrik Roos
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 43 to 48
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Top 43
Painting: False Start
Artist: Jasper Johns
Year Made: 1959
Date of Sale: October 12, 2006
Seller: David Geffen
Top 44
Painting: A Whitfield with Cypresses
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year Made: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73 cm × 93.4 cm (29 in × 36.8 in)
Date of Sale: May 1993
Seller: Emil Georg Bührle”s
Top 45
Painting: Te Fare (La Maison)
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Year Made: 1892
Date of Sale: June 2008
Seller: Yves Bouvier
Top 46
Painting: Yo, Picasso
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Year Made: 1901
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73.5 cm × 60.5 cm (28.9 in × 23.8 in)
Date of Sale: May 9, 1989
Seller: Wendell Cherry
Top 47
Painting: Turquoise Marilyn
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year Made: 1964
Date of Sale: May 20, 2007
Seller: Stefan Edlis
Top 48
Painting: Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos with a Page
Artist: Titian
Year Made: 1533
Date of Sale: November 2003
Seller: AXA Insurance Company
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 49 to 54
Top 49 to 54
Top 49
Painting: Orange, Red, Yellow
Artist: Mark Rothko
Year Made: 1961
Dimensions: 236.2 cm × 206.4 cm (93 in × 81 1⁄4 in)
Date of Sale: May 8, 2012
Seller: David Pincus Eatate
Top 50
Painting: Le Bassin aux Nympheas
Artist: Claude Monet
Year Made: 1919
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm × 300 cm (39 in × 120 in)
Date of Sale: June 24, 2008
Seller: J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller
Top 51
Painting: Chop Suey
Artist: Edward Hopper
Year Made: 1929
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81.3 cm (32.0 in) × 96.5 cm (38.0 in)
Date of Sale: November 13, 2018
Seller: Barney A. Ebsworth
Top 52
Painting: Rideau, Crucgin et Compotier
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Year Made: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 cm × 73.0 cm (23.5 in × 28.75 in)
Date of Sale: May 10, 1999
Seller: Whitney family
Top 53
Painting:
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
Artist: David Hockney
Year Made: 1972
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Movement: pop art
Dimensions : 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m)
Date of Sale: November 15, 2018
Seller:
Top 54
Painting: Black Fire I
Artist: Barnett Newman
Year Made: 1961
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 114 x 84 in. 289.5 x 213.3 cm.).
Date of Sale: May 13, 2014
Seller: Private collection
World’s Most Expensive Paintings Top 55 to 60
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Top 55
Painting:
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
Artist: Mark Rothko
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimension: 205.8 cm × 141 cm (81.0 in × 56 in)
Year Made: 1950
Date of Sale: May 15, 2007
Seller: David Rockefeller, Sr.
Top 56
Painting: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year Made: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 95 cm (37 in) × 73 cm (29 in)
Date of Sale: March 30, 1987
Seller: Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty
Top 57
Painting: Triple Elvis
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year Made: 1963
Date of Sale: November 12, 2014
Seller: WeatSpiel
Top 58
Painting: Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)
Artist:Andy Warhol
Year Made: 19663
Date of Sale: May 16, 2007
Seller: Private collection
Top 59
Painting: No. 10
Artist: Mark Rothko
Year Made: 1958
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 239.4 cm × 175.9 cm (94.3 in × 69.3 in)
Date of Sale: May 13, 2015
Seller:
Top 60
Painting: Suprematist Composition
Artist: Kazimir Malevich
Year Made: 1916
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 88.5 cm × 71 cm (34.8 in × 28 in)
Date of Sale: May 15, 2018
Seller: The Nahmad family
The Biggest Ball
The Biggest Ball
„The Biggest Ball“ Helenna Jouja’s painting on 150x100cm canvas featuring one of the hi-societies of Vienna, Austria, Herr Richard Lugner, whose invitations of the big sexy stars to the glamorous Opera Ball became a yearly tradition.
Scroll down to see the corresponding video of the story behind “the Biggest Ball” painting
The Arch of Chase
„The Arch of Chase“ by Helenna Jouja, a Filipina Canadian international modern artist in Europe, is a playful combination of the widely known iconic painting „The Scream“ by Edvard Munch (1963-1944) and her own story of the painting in cooperation with her art gallerist Hubert Thurnhofer of Kunstraum (art gallery) in the Ringstraßen Galerien in Vienna, Austria, Europe. In this painting Helenna Jouja made some radical transformation of „The Scream“ making the controversial character of “The Scream” have a distinctive figure of a young woman, referring her as the Statue of Scream, turning her into an important figure of the past like what is usually displayed in a museum; and adjusting its color and images to fit her new story that whoever touched the flower of the Goddess of the Arch of Chase would forever chase the first one he sees. Replicating the colorful sunset of Munch, Helenna Jouja was able to match her own idea of sunset to fit that of Munch‘s, while the rest of the characters showed different emotions after touching the flower of the Goddess of Chase. 😀