10 Most Expensive Paintings In The World

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2 October 2024

This is a list of the top 10 most expensive paintings in the world according to Forbes: 


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Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci, is the most expensive painting ever sold. It fetched $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on November 15, 2017. The buyer was Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud


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Interchange painted by Willem de Kooning, was sold by Sotheby's for $20.68 million in 1989. The painting then fetched $300 million at a private auction in 2015


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“The Card Players” was purchased by the Museum of Qatar in 2011 for $250 million. Paul Cézanne painted this canvas between 1892 and 1893 


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In 2015, the famous Swiss collector Rudolf Staechelin sold Paul Gauguin‘s work “When will you marry?” for $210 million. This work is now owned by Qatar Museums


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In 1948, Jackson Pollock painted his work “Number 17A”. The painting was purchased by Kenneth C. Griffin in 2015 at a private auction for $200 million 


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The Standard Bearer is a 1636 painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt van Rijn. It was acquired by Dutch government for $198 million in 2022


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Mark Rothko “No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)”. In 2014, the painting was sold to a Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $186 million 


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In 1907, Gustav Klimt painted his allegorical painting “Water Serpents II”. Klimt's painting was sold in 2017 for $183.8 million


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Rembrandt's 1634 portraits of newlyweds Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit were sold to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre in Paris for $180 million


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Pablo Picasso and his “Women in Algiers (Version O)” fetched $174 million when it was sold in 2015


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