Highest Priced Paintings

Highest Priced Paintings

This is a list of the highest prices paid for paintings. Very valuable paintings, if sold, are usually sold at auctions. The world's most famous paintings, especially works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. Though not for sale, Guinness World Records lists the Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting in history. It was assessed at US $100 million on December 14, 1962, before the painting toured the U.S. for several months. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be approximately US $670 million in 2006.

RankPainting TitleArtistPrice Year Sold 
1 Untitled-1.png No. 5, 1948Jackson Pollock$149,700,000 2006 
2 Untitled-2.png Woman IIIWillem de Kooning$147,000,000 2006 
3 Untitled-3.png Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IGustav Klimt$144,400,000 2006 
4 Untitled-4.png Portrait of Dr. GachetVincent van Gogh$136,100,000 1990 
5 Untitled-5.png Bal au moulin de la Galette, MontmartrePierre-Auguste Renoir$128,800,000 1990 
6 Untitled-6.png Garçon à la pipePablo Picasso$118,900,000 2004 
7 Untitled-7.png IrisesVincent van Gogh$102,300,000 1987 
8 Untitled-8.png Dora Maar au ChatPablo Picasso$101,800,000 2006 
9 Untitled-9.png Portrait de l'artiste sans barbeVincent van Gogh$94,600,000 1998 
10 Untitled-10.png Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IIGustav Klimt$94,000,000 2006 
11 Untitled-11.png Massacre of the InnocentsPeter Paul Rubens$91,900,000 2002 
12 Untitled-12.png TriptychFrancis Bacon$86,300,000 2008 
13 Untitled-13.png Les Noces de PierrettePablo Picasso$85,700,000 1989 
14 Untitled-14.png False StartJasper Johns$85,600,000 2006 
15 Untitled-15.png A Wheatfield with CypressesVincent van Gogh$85,100,000 1993 
16 Untitled-16.png Yo, PicassoPablo Picasso$83,200,000 1989 
17 Untitled-17.png Le Bassin aux NymphéasClaude Monet$80,400,000 2008 
18 Untitled-18.png Rideau, Cruchon et CompotierPaul Cézanne$78,300,000 1999 
19 Untitled-19.png White CenterMark Rothko$75,700,000 2007 
20 Untitled-20.png Vase with Fifteen SunflowersVincent van Gogh$75,400,000 1987 
21 Untitled-21.png Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)Andy Warhol$74,600,000 2007 
22 Untitled-22.png Au Lapin Agile,Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso$70,800,000 1989 
23 Untitled-23.png Acrobate et jeune ArlequinPablo Picasso$70,200,000 1988 
24 Untitled-24.png Femme aux Bras Crois00e9sPablo Picasso$68,900,000 2000 
25 Untitled-25.png Police GazetteWillem de Kooning$67,900,000 2006 
26 Untitled-26.png Le RêvePablo Picasso$65,000,000 1997 
27 Untitled-27.png Femme assise dans un jardinPablo Picasso$64,200,000 1999 
28 Untitled-28.png Peasant Woman Against a Background of WheatVincent van Gogh$63,800,000 1997 
29 Untitled-29.png Portrait of a Halberdier,PontormoPontormo$61,200,000 1989 
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