List of most expensive paintings

File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg

Salvator Mundi attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (Template:C. 1500)

This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record payment for a work is approximately US $450.3 million (which includes commission) for the work Salvator Mundi (Template:Circa) generally considered to be by Leonardo da Vinci, though this is disputed. The painting was sold in November 2017,<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Exhibition Guide: Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter at the Court of Milan, 9 November 2011– 5 February 2012</ref> through the auction house Christie's in New York City.

Background

The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962.<ref name=gwr82/> Taking only inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$Template:Inflation billion in Template:Inflation-year.Template:Inflation-fn

The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of £24.75 million (£Template:Inflation million in Template:Inflation-year currency). This sale tripled the previous record, and introduced a new era in top art sales. Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was £8.1 million (£Template:Inflation million in Template:Inflation-year currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985.<ref name=wilson>William Wilson, Getty Pays $10.5 Million For Painting, The New York Times, April 19, 1985</ref> The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder. Old master paintings had previously dominated the market.<ref name=gwr82/> In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874.Template:Fact

An exceptional case is graffiti artist David Choe, who accepted payment in shares for painting graffiti art in the headquarters of a fledgling Facebook. His shares were of limited value when he was given them, but by the time of Facebook's IPO they were valued at around $200 million.<ref name="NYT Facebook">Nick Bilton, "For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches," The New York Times, 1/1/12.</ref>

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The Red Vineyard (1888), the only painting the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh sold during his lifetime. It was sold for roughly US$2,000 (today's value).

The list is incomplete with respect to sales between private parties, as these are not always reported and, even if they are, details like the purchase price may remain secret. For example, on June 25, 2019, the American hedge fund manager J. Tomilson Hill bought a recently rediscovered Judith and Holofernes (1607) attributed to Caravaggio, two days before it would have been auctioned in Toulouse.<ref name="rpob" /> Though the Louvre Museum had turned down the opportunity to purchase it for €100 million,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the painting was estimated to sell for $110 to $170 million.<ref>Alex Greenberger, Caravaggio Painting Estimated at $170 M. Sold Privately Ahead of Auction in France, ArtNews, 25 June 2019</ref> The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale.<ref name="rpob">Robin Pogrebin, Mystery Buyer of Work Attributed to Caravaggio Revealed, The New York Times, 27 June 2019</ref> Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. According to some sources, the painting had been sold by Argentine art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier for $300 million,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> but the price was not confirmed by any of the parties involved.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol are the best-represented artists in the list. Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for Template:Currency (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US $44.4 million (equivalent to US$Template:Inflation million in Template:Inflation-year).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Among the listed top paintings listed, only seven are by non-Western artists. Five are traditional Chinese paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Bin, Wang Meng and Xu Yang. In particular, Qi Baishi's Twelve Landscape Screens was sold for $140.8 million in 2017. The only non-Western modern artwork listed is that of the Chinese-French painter Zao Wouki's oil painting Juin-Octobre 1985, which was sold for $65 million in 2018.<ref>Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985, Modern Art Evening Sale, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 September 2018</ref> Also included in this list is Chinese painter Wang Shaofei's The High Sun, which was sold at an estimated price of $74 million in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Shaofei1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Shaofei2">Template:Cite web</ref>

List of highest prices paid

Template:Clear This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in Template:Inflation-year.<ref group="note">The Wikipedia template uses a yearly average inflation. Using monthly averages gives slightly different numbers, most significantly for paintings sold early or late in a year with significant inflation.</ref> Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the painting was sold. The inflation adjustment may change as recent inflation rates are often revised. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. Paintings are listed only once, i.e., for the highest price sold.

Adjusted (million USD)	Original (million USD)	Name	Image	Artist	Year	Date of sale	Rank at sale	Seller	Buyer	Auction house
$Template:Inflation	$450.3	Salvator Mundi	File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg	Template:Sort (attribution disputed)	Template:Circa	Template:Dts	1	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Badr bin Abdullah Al SaudTemplate:Refn	Christie's, New York<ref name=wsj>Template:Cite news</ref>
data-sort-value="$Template:Inflation"|~$Template:Inflation	~$300	Interchange	File:Photo of Interchanged by Willem de Kooning.jpg	Template:Sort	1955	Template:Dts	1	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale<ref name=halfabillion>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation +	$250 +<ref group="note">Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million</ref>	The Card Players	File:Paul Cézanne 222.jpg	Template:Sort	1892/93	Template:Dts	1	George Embiricos	State of Qatar	Private sale<ref name=ama>Art Media Agency (AMA), 250 M$, a new record for a painting? Template:Webarchive, 4 May 2011</ref><ref name=wel>Stefan Koldehoff, Welt-online: Das Rätsel vom teuersten Bild aller Zeiten, 31 July 2011 (already mentions Qatar as most likely buyer)</ref><ref name=vf>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$210<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)	File:Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faa Ipoipo? (When Will You Marry?) 1892, oil on canvas, 101 x 77 cm.jpg	Template:Sort	1892	Template:Dts	2	Rudolf Staechelin heirs	State of Qatar	Private sale<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
data-sort-value="$Template:Inflation"|~$Template:Inflation	~$200	Number 17A		Template:Sort	1948	Template:Dts	4	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale<ref name=halfabillion/>
$Template:Inflation	$183.8	Wasserschlangen II	File:Klimt - Wasserschlangen II (Freundinnen) - 1904.jpeg	Template:Sort	1904–1907	Template:Dts	2	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private saleTemplate:Refn
$Template:Inflation	$186 (€140)	No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)		Template:Sort	1951	Template:Dts	3	Cherise Moueix	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier<ref name=ryob>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$180 (€160 million)	Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit	File:Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit.jpeg	Template:Sort	1634	Template:Dts<ref>Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit by Rembrandt, an exceptionnal [sic] acquisition exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, www.louvre.fr</ref>	7	Éric de Rothschild	Rijksmuseum and Louvre	Private sale <ref>Rembrandt portraits may come home, The New York Times, September 21, 2015</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$179.4	Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")		Template:Sort	1955	Template:Dts	5	Private collection	Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniTemplate:Cn	Christie's, New York<ref name=NYTimesPicGiaMay2015>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$236.3	Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer	File:Gustav Klimt Porträt der Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt.jpg	Template:Sort	1914-1916	Template:Dts	10	Estate of Leonard Lauder		Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$198 (€175)	The Standard Bearer	File:Rembrandt - De vaandeldrager (Q21467444).jpeg	Template:Sort	1636	Template:Dts	10	Rothschild family	Rijksmuseum	Private sale<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$170.4	Nu couché	File:Modigliani - Nu couché.jpg	Template:Sort	1917/18	Template:Dts	9	Laura Mattioli Rossi	Liu Yiqian<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref name=NYTimesMod>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$140	No. 5, 1948		Template:Sort	1948	Template:Dts	1	David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's<ref name=vogelnov06>Carol Vogel, A Pollock Is Sold, Possibly for a Record Price, The New York Times, November 2, 2006</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$137.5	Woman III		Template:Sort	1953	Template:Dts	2	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian<ref>Carol Vogel, Landmark De Kooning Crowns Collection, The New York Times, November 18, 2006</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$165.0	Masterpiece		Template:Sort	1962	Template:Dts	12	Agnes Gund<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>On June 11, 2017, Ms. Gund revealed that she intended to use the proceeds from the sale of the painting for a specific purpose: to create a fund that supports criminal justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States.Template:Cite news</ref>	Steven A. Cohen<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Private sale
$Template:Inflation	$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	File:Gustav Klimt, 1907, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Neue Galerie New York.jpg	Template:Sort	1907	Template:Dts	1	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's<ref name=vogeljune06>Carol Vogel, Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait, The New York Times, June 19, 2006</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$195	Shot Sage Blue Marilyn		Template:Sort	1964	Template:Dts	11	Thomas and Doris Ammann	Larry Gagosian	Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$155	Le Rêve		Template:Sort	1932	Template:Dts	6	Steve Wynn	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale<ref>Carol Vogel & Peter Lattman, $616 Million Poorer, Hedge Fund Owner Still Buys Art, The New York Times, March 26, 2013</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	File:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg	Template:Sort	1890	Template:Dts	1	Siegfried Kramarsky heirs	Ryoei SaitoTemplate:Refn<ref name=gachet>Lee Rosenbaum, "Dr. Gachet" Sighting: It WAS Flöttl!, ArtsJournal, January 26, 2007</ref>	Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$157.2	Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)	File:Amedeo Modigliani 014.jpg	Template:Sort	1917	Template:Dts		Ezra and David Nahmad		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$150	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II	File:Gustav Klimt 047.jpg	Template:Sort	1912	Template:Dts	10	Oprah Winfrey<ref group="note">Oprah Winfrey had bought the painting in November 2006 at Christie's for nearly $88 million. At that time this was the 4th highest (unadjusted) price at auction and 10th highest price on this list.</ref>	Unidentified buyer in China	Private sale via Larry Gagosian<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$142.4	Three Studies of Lucian Freud		Template:Sort	1969	Template:Dts	8	Template:Refn	Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn<ref>Carol Vogel, Buyer of $142.4 Million Bacon Triptych Identified as Elaine Wynn, The New York Times, January 15, 2014</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref name="NYT sale">Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette <ref group="note">This is the small version of the painting; the large version is at the Musée d'Orsay.</ref>	File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg	Template:Sort	1876	Template:Dts	2	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei SaitoTemplate:Refn	Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$140.8 (¥931.5)	Twelve Landscape Screens		Qi Baishi	1925	Template:Dts				Beijing Poly Auction<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$104.2	Garçon à la pipe	File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg	Template:Sort	1905	Template:Dts	3	Greentree Foundation (Whitney family)	Guido Barilla (suspected)<ref name=garcon1>Claire Foy-Smith, Who buys paintings for $104m?, BBC News Online, 6 May 2004</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref name=garcon2>Lot description and auction details of "Garçon à la pipe" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$149.2	Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)	File:Georges Seurat 047.jpg	Georges Seurat	1888	Template:Dts	1	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$119.9	The Scream<ref group="note">One of two pastel versions; another two painted versions (and lithography) exist, all created by Munch.</ref>	File:The Scream Pastel.jpg	Template:Sort	1895	Template:Dts	8	Petter Olsen	Leon Black<ref>Kelly Crow, An Art Mystery Solved: Mogul Is 'Scream' Buyer, The Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2012</ref>	Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$120	Otahi	File:Paul Gauguin 093.jpg	Template:Sort	1893	Template:Dts	10	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private saleTemplate:Refn
$Template:Inflation	$118	Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion	File:Amedeo Modigliani Nu Couché au coussin Bleu.jpg	Template:Sort	1916	Template:Dts	8	Steven A. Cohen	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier<ref name="ryob" />
$Template:Inflation	$137.7	La Montagne Sainte-Victoire	File:Montagne Sainte-Victoire, par Paul Cézanne 114.jpg	Paul Cezanne	1888-1890	Template:Dts	2	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$110.0	Template:Interlanguage link<ref group="note">This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist.</ref>		Template:Sort	1958	Template:Dts	7	Jean-Christophe Castelli	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale, estimated price<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust		Template:Sort	1932	Template:Dts	9	Frances Lasker Brody estate	Leonard Blavatnik (suspected)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref>Picasso piece sets record for art sold at auction, Reuters, May 5, 2010</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$58 plus exchange of works<ref group="note">The paintings transferred to the dealers include a late Monet entitled Corona (Water Lilies) from around 1920; Renoir's Reclining Nude of 1902; Kandinsky's Autumn Landscape, Murnau from 1908, and Picasso's Striped Bodice from September 1943.</ref>	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	File:Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Joseph Roulin.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	1	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich<ref name=kimmelman>Kimmelman, Michael: How the MoMA got the Van Gogh, The New York Times, 09 October 1989.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$107.5	L’Homme assis au verre		Template:Sort	1914	Template:Dts		Yves BouvierTemplate:Refn	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$53.9	Irises	File:Irises-Vincent van Gogh.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	1	John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond<ref group="note">Alan Bond could not pay off the painting, and Irises was resold (probably for somewhat less) to the Getty Museum.</ref>	Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat		Template:Sort	1941	Template:Dts	6	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili<ref>Marc Spiegler, he Hunt for the Red Collector Template:Webarchive, New York Magazine, 22 August 2006.</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Dora Maar au Chat" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$100.0	Eight Elvises		Template:Sort	1963	Template:Dts	10	Annibale Berlingieri	The State of Qatar (suspected)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Dan Duray, qatar may have purchased Warhol's 'Eight Elvises', ArtNews 08/07/14</ref>	Private sale via Philippe Ségalot<ref>The Pop master's highs and lows, The Economist, 26 November 2009.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$115	Young Girl with a Flower Basket	File:Pablo Picasso, 1905, Fillette nue au panier de fleurs (Le panier fleuri), oil on canvas, 155 x 66 cm, private collection, New York.jpg	Template:Sort	1905	Template:Dts		David and Peggy Rockefeller	The Nahmad family<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$139.3	Femme à la montre		Pablo Picasso	1932	Template:Dts		Emily Fisher Landau's estate	Anonymous buyer	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation +	$105.7 +<ref group="note">Price excludes sales commission and other costs.</ref> (¥10,300)	Anna's Light		Template:Sort	1968	Template:Dts		DIC Corp.		Private sale<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$105.4	Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)		Template:Sort	1963	Template:Dts				Sotheby's, New York<ref>Silver Car Crash auction results at Sotheby's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$110.5	Untitled		Template:Sort	1982	Template:Dts		Emily and Jerry Spiegel<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Yusaku Maezawa<ref>Why Spend $110 Million on a Basquiat?, The New York Times, May 26, 2017</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 102.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	5	Template:Interlanguage link multi heirs		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$110.7	Meules	File:Claude Monet - Meules (W 1273).jpg	Template:Sort	1890	Template:Dts			Hasso Plattner<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Scott Reyburn, A Monet Sells for $110.7 Million, an Auction High for an Impressionist Work, The New York Times, May 14, 2019.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$117.1	Verger avec cyprès	File:Van Gogh - Blühender Obstgarten mit Pfirsichbäumen.jpeg	Vincent van Gogh	1888	Template:Dts	3	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$100	La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir	File:Sainte-Victoire.jpg	Template:Sort	1904	Template:Dts<ref group="note">Exact date of sale is not known.</ref>		Edsel and Eleanor Ford House	State of Qatar<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Private sale<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$76.7 (£49.5)	Massacre of the Innocents	File:0 Le Massacre des Innocents d'après P.P. Rubens - Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique (2).JPG	Template:Sort	1611	Template:Dts	6	an Austrian family	Kenneth ThomsonTemplate:Refn	Sotheby's, London
$Template:Inflation	$95.4	Nurse		Template:Sort	1964	Template:Dts				Christie's, New York<ref name=NYTimesMod/>
$Template:Inflation	$86.3	Triptych, 1976		Template:Sort	1976	Template:Dts		Jean-Pierre Moueix heirs<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Roman Abramovich<ref>Cristina Ruiz and Sarah Thornton Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud Template:Webarchive, The Art Newspaper, 1 June 2008</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Triptych, 1976" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$49.3 (F300)	Les Noces de Pierrette	File:Lesnoces.JPG	Template:Sort	1905	Template:Dts	3	Template:Interlanguage link multi<ref>Judd Tully, Auction; `Blue' Picasso Breaks Record at $51.7 Million, The Washington Post, Dec 1, 1989</ref>	Tomonori Tsurumaki	Binoche et Godeau Paris
$Template:Inflation	$80.0	Template:Interlanguage link		Template:Sort	1959	Template:Dts	11	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale via Richard Gray<ref name=johnskooning>Carol Vogel, Works by Johns and de Kooning Sell for $143.5 Million, The New York Times, October 12, 2006</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$85 (€54)	Te Fare	File:Te Fare (La maison) Paul Gauguin 1892.jpg	Template:Sort	1892	Template:Dts		Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private saleTemplate:Refn
$Template:Inflation	$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	File:Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses (National Gallery version).jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	6	Emil Georg Bührle's son	Walter H. Annenberg<ref group="note">Annenberg subsequently donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</ref>	Private sale via Steven Mazoh
$Template:Inflation	$100	Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump		Template:Sort	1982	2020		Peter Brant<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref>	Ken Griffin<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Private sale<ref name=":2" />
$Template:Inflation	$105.7	Maternitè II	File:Paul gauguin maternit233 ii100257).jpg	Paul Gauguin	1899	Template:Dts	4	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$47.8	Yo, Picasso	File:Yo, Picasso.jpg	Template:Sort	1901	Template:Dts	2	Wendell Cherry	Stavros Niarchos	Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$104.5	Birch Forest	File:Gustav Klimt, Birch Forest, 1903 - Paul G. Allen Collection.jpg	Template:Sort	1903	Template:Dts	5	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn		Template:Sort	1964	Template:Dts		Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian<ref>Carol Vogel, Inside Art: Buying a Warhol 'Marilyn', The New York Times, 25 May 2007</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$121.2	The Empire of Light		René Magritte	1954	November 19, 2024	1	Mica Ertegun		Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$103.4	Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)		Pablo Picasso	1932	Template:Dts				Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$70.0	Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page	File:Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian) - Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page - Google Art Project.jpg	Titian	1533	Template:Dts	10	Axa insurance company	Getty Museum	Private sale via Hervé Aaron<ref>The Getty secures masterpiece portrait by Titian Template:Webarchive, a November 24, 2003 press release by the Getty Museum</ref><ref>Will Bennett, The $70 million soldier, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2004</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$86.9	Orange, Red, Yellow		Template:Sort	1961	Template:Dts		David Pincus estate		Christie's, New York<ref>Mark Rothko painting sets post-war auction record, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2012</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$80.5 (£40.9)	Le Bassin aux Nymphéas	File:Le bassin aux nymphéas - Claude Monet.jpg	Template:Sort	1919	Template:Dts		J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller	Andrey Melnichenko<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Christie's, London<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Le bassin aux nymphéas" at Christie's website</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$91.9	Chop Suey		Template:Sort	1929	Template:Dts		Barney A. Ebsworth estate		Christie's, New York<ref name=hop>Scott Reyburn, Hopper Painting Sells for Record $91.9 Million at Christie’s, The New York Times, November 13, 2018</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$60.5	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier	File:Paulcezanneart.jpg	Template:Sort	1894	Template:Dts	9	Whitney FamilyTemplate:Refn		Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$90.3	Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)		Template:Sort	1972	Template:Dts			Pierre Chen	Christie's, New York<ref>Scott Reyburn and Robin Pogrebin, David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist, The New York Times, November 15, 2018</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$108.4 (£85.3)	Lady with a Fan	File:Gustav Klimt - Dame mit Fächer.jpeg	Template:Sort	1917-8	Template:Dts			Patti Wong, on behalf of a Hong Kong buyer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	date=28 June 2023 |title=Gustav Klimt- Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-contemporary-evening-auction-2/dame-mit-faecher-lady-with-a-fan?locale=en |access-date=28 June 2023 |website=Sotheby's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$84.2	Black Fire I		Template:Sort	1961	Template:Dts		Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York<ref name="Christie's Contemporary May 2014">Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$72.8	White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)		Template:Sort	1950	Template:Dts		David Rockefeller, Sr.	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani<ref name="artnewsMay04">Template:Cite news</ref>	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "White Center" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$39.7 (£24.75)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	File:Van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	1	Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp./Sompo Holdings<ref name=heirs>Template:Cite web</ref>	Christie's, London
$Template:Inflation	$88.8	Buffalo II		Template:Sort	1964	Template:Dts		Robert and Beatrice Mayer Estate<ref name=":0" />	Alice Walton<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$81.9	Triple Elvis		Template:Sort	1963	Template:Dts		Template:Interlanguage link multi<ref name="vogel2014">Carol Vogel, A Warhol Leads a Night of Soaring Prices at Christie’s, The New York Times, Nov 13, 2014</ref>		Christie's, New York<ref>Andy Warhol's "Triple Elvis" auction results at Christie's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$71.7	Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)		Template:Sort	1963	Template:Dts		Private collection, Zürich	Philip Niarchos	Christie's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Green Car Crash" at Christie's website</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$81.9	No. 10		Template:Sort	1958	Template:Dts				Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$93.1	In This Case		Template:Sort	1983	Template:Dts		Giancarlo Giammetti	Private collector	Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$85.8	Suprematist Composition	File:Suprematist Composition - Kazimir Malevich.jpg	Template:Sort	1916	Template:Dts		The Nahmad family	Anonymous	Christie's, New YorkTemplate:Refn
$Template:Inflation	$80.8	Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards		Template:Sort	1984	Template:Dts		Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York.<ref name="Christie's Contemporary May 2014" />
$Template:Inflation	$92.2	Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel	File:Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel.jpg	Sandro Botticelli	Template:Circa	Template:Dts		Sheldon Solow estate	Russian private collector	Sotheby's, New York<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$81.4	Meule	File:Monet Grainstack in the Sunlight 1891.jpg	Template:Sort	1891	Template:Dts				Christie's, New York<ref>Claude Monet's "Meule" at Christie's website</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$84.7	Nymphéas en fleur	File:Claude Monet - Nympheas en fleur.jpg	Template:Sort	1914–1917	Template:Dts		David and Peggy Rockefeller	Xin Li-Cohen<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
data-sort-value=$Template:Inflation|~$Template:Inflation	~$75 (€50–60)<ref group="note">Usually estimated at "over €50 M" or "between 50 and 60 million Euros". On July 12, 2011, $75M was equivalent to €53M.</ref>	Darmstadt Madonna	File:Darmstadtmadonna.jpg	Template:Sort	1526	Template:Dts		Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse	Reinhold Würth	Private sale via Christoph Graf Douglas<ref>Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince Template:Webarchive, The Art Newspaper, July 15, 2011</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$81.3	Laboureur dans un champ	File:Van Gogh - Acker mit pflügenden Bauern.jpeg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts		Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass estate		Christie's, New York<ref>Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Laboureur dans un champ at Christie's website</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$84.55	Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus		Template:Sort	1981	Template:Dts		Hans Rasmus Astrup		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus" at Sotheby's website.</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$70.6 (£50)	Diana and Actaeon	File:Titian - Diana and Actaeon - 1556-1559.jpg	Titian	1556–1559	Template:Dts		Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London	Private sale<ref>Farah Nayeri, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Bloomberg, February 2, 2009</ref><ref>Mike Wade, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, The Sunday Times, 2 February 2009</ref><ref>Funds secured for Titian painting, BBC News, 2 February 2009</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$40.7	Au Lapin Agile	File:Pablo Picasso, 1905, Au Lapin Agile (At the Lapin Agile), oil on canvas, 99.1 x 100.3 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg	Template:Sort	1904	Template:Dts	5	Linda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Whitney Payson	Walter H. Annenberg	Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$68	The Gross Clinic	File:Thomas Eakins, American - Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) - Google Art Project.jpg	Template:Sort	1875	Template:Dts		Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Private sale<ref name="Salisbury">Salisbury, Stephan (November 14, 2006), A divisive deal, The Philadelphia Inquirer</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$75.1	No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)		Template:Sort	1954	Template:Dts		John and Anne Marion		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$38.5 (£20.9)	Acrobate et jeune arlequin <ref group="note">Re-sold for £12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993.</ref>		Template:Sort	1905	Template:Dts	3	Roger Janssen heirs? <ref group="note">A Belgian banker and collector who bought it in 1939 for $18,000. His was the last name on the 1988 provenance list; painting came from "a private collection in Arizona"</ref>	Mitsukoshi	Christie's, London
$Template:Inflation	$80.8	Odalisque couchée aux magnolias		Template:Sort	1923	Template:Dts		David and Peggy Rockefeller	Xin Li-Cohen<ref name=":1" />	Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$55.0	Femme aux Bras Croisés	File:Pablo Picasso, 1901-02, Femme aux Bras Croisés, Woman with Folded Arms (Madchenbildnis), oil on canvas, 81 × 58 cm (32 × 23 in).jpg	Template:Sort	1902	Template:Dts		Chauncey McCormick heirs		Christie's, New York<ref>Lot description and auction details of "Femme aux bras croisés" at Christie's website</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$69.0	Nude Sitting on a Divan	File:Amedeo Modigliani 063.jpg	Template:Sort	1917	Template:Dts		Halit Cıngıllıoglu<ref>Kelly Crow, Sotheby's Sells $68.9 Million Modigliani, The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2010</ref>		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$63.5	Police Gazette<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>		Template:Sort	1955	Template:Dts		David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Richard Gray.<ref name=johnskooning/>
$Template:Inflation	$85	Untitled		Template:Sort	1982	Template:Dts		Yusaku Maezawa	Taiwanese collector	Philips, New York<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$71.7 (£45)	Diana and Callisto	File:TitianDianaCallistoEdinburgh.jpg	Titian	1556–1559	Template:Dts		Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London	Private sale<ref name="autogenerated1">Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$74	The High Sun	The High Sun	Wang Shaofei	2007	May 2017		Legal entity of a prominent Japanese collector family	Anonymous (private collection represented by an international institution)	Private sale <ref name="Shaofei1"/><ref name="Shaofei2"/>
$Template:Inflation	$70.5	Untitled (New York City)		Template:Sort	1968	Template:Dts		Sydney M. Irmas heirs		Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$77 (¥512.9)	Template:Interlanguage link<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	File:十面灵璧图卷 前正面局部.jpg	Wu Bin	1610	Template:Dts		William Bernard Ziff Jr. heirs		Beijing Poly Auction
$Template:Inflation	$49.5	Femme assise dans un jardin		Template:Sort	1938	Template:Dts		Robert SaidenbergTemplate:Refn<ref>Carter B. Horsley, The Collection of Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg</ref>		Sotheby's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$70.2 (£42.2)	Portrait of George Dyer Talking		Template:Sort	1966	Template:Dts				Christie's, London<ref>Francis Bacon (1909–1992) Portrait of George Dyer Talking at Christie's website</ref><ref>Carol Vogel, Francis Bacon Work Sells for $70 Million at Christie’s Auction, The New York Times, February 13, 2014</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$47.5	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat	File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 097.jpg	Template:Sort	1890	Template:Dts	11		Steve WynnTemplate:Refn	Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York<ref>Carol Vogel, A Gauguin and a van Gogh Change Hands, The New York Times, Oct 7, 2005</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$69.6	Template:Interlanguage link		Template:Sort	1970	Template:Dts		Nicola del Roscio<ref name="vogel2014" />		Christie's, New York<ref>Cy Twombly's Untitled auction results at Christie's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$69.6	Four Marlons		Template:Sort	1966	Template:Dts		WestSpiel<ref name="vogel2014" />		Christie's, New York<ref>Andy Warhol's "Four Marlons" auction results at Christie's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$79.45	The Empire of Lights		Template:Sort	1961	Template:Dts		Anne-Marie Crowet Gillon heirs		Sotheby's, London<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$65.5 (¥425.5)	Eagle Standing on Pine Tree<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	File:Qi Baishi Eagle.jpg	Qi Baishi	1946	Template:Dts		Liu Yiqian	Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	China Guardian Auctions
$Template:Inflation	$63.4	Men in Her Life		Template:Sort	1962	Template:Dts		Jose Mugrabi	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Phillips de Pury & Company<ref>Carol Vogel, Auction Records Fall at Phillips’s Sale of Contemporary Masters, NY Times, November 10, 2010</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$70.1	Contraste de formes		Template:Sort	1913	Template:Dts		Template:Illm and Template:Illm Foundation		Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$67.45	La Gommeuse	File:Pablo Picasso - La Gommeuse.jpg	Template:Sort	1901	Template:Dts		William I. Koch		Sotheby's, New York.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$67.4	Buste de femme (Femme à la résille)		Template:Sort	1938	Template:Dts		Steve Wynn	Joseph Lau<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Christie's, New York<ref name=NYTimesPicGiaMay2015 />
$Template:Inflation	$35.2	Portrait of a Halberdier	File:Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Florentine) - Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) - Google Art Project.jpg	Pontormo	1537	Template:Dts	5	Chauncey Stillman	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$Template:Inflation	$66.3	L’Allée des Alyscamps	File:Van Gogh - Les Alyscamps, Allee in Arles1.jpeg	Template:Sort	1888	Template:Dts				Sotheby's, New York<ref>Brian Boucher, Led by $66M Van Gogh, Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Sale Robustly Kicks Off Season, Artnet, May 5, 2015</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$66.2	Untitled		Template:Sort	1952	Template:Dts		Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York<ref name="Christie's Contemporary May 2014" />
$Template:Inflation	$66.3	Untitled XXV		Template:Sort	1977	Template:Dts				Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$62.1 (¥402.5)	Zhichuan Resettlement<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	File:ZhichuanResettlement.jpg	Wang Meng	1350	Template:Dts				Beijing Poly Auction
$Template:Inflation	$69.2	Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)		Template:Sort	1937	Template:Dts		Private collection	Harry Smith	Sotheby's, London<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$65.1	Spring	File:Édouard Manet - Jeanne (Spring).jpg	Template:Sort	1881	Template:Dts		Oliver Hazard Payne heirs<ref>Jeanne (Spring) at the J. Paul Getty Museum website</ref>	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York<ref>Craig Nakano, Getty breaks record with $65.1-million purchase of Manet's 'Spring', LA Times, November 5, 2014</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$68.9	Woman as Landscape		Template:Sort	1955	Template:Dts		Barney A. Ebsworth estate		Christie's, New York<ref name="hop" />
$Template:Inflation	$61.7	Template:Illm		Template:Sort	1949	Template:Dts		City and County of Denver		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Carol Vogel, As Stocks Fall, Art Surges at a $315.8 Million Sale, NY Times, November 9, 2011</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$82.5	No. 7		Mark Rothko	1951	Template:Dts		Private Collection	Laurence Escalante	Private sale
$Template:Inflation	$71.4	Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès	File:Vincent van Gogh - Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprés (F 623).jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts		Edwin L. Cox		Christie's, New York<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$70.35	Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)	File:Water-Lily Pond Monet.jpg	Claude Monet	1917-1919	Template:Dts		Private Collection, New York, United States		Sotheby's, New York<ref>Claude Monet's "Le Bassin aux nymphéas" auction results at Sotheby's</ref>
$Template:Inflation	$65.23 (HK$510.371)	Juin-Octobre 1985		Zao Wou-Ki	1985	Template:Dts		Chang Qiu Dun<ref>Nate Freeman, A Zao Wou-Ki painting sold for $65 million, breaking records for a work by an Asian artist, Artsy, October 1, 2018</ref>		Sotheby's, Hong Kong<ref>Zao Wou-Ki's "Juin-Octobre 1985" auction results at Sotheby's</ref>

Progression of highest prices paid

Template:Clear This list shows the progression of the highest price paid for a painting since 1746.

Price	Painting	Image	Artist	Year	Date of sale	Seller	Buyer	Auction house
$0.03 million	Magdalen in the Desert	File:Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden) Galeriewerk Lücke 012.jpg	Template:Sort		Template:Dts		Augustus III of Poland	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.04 million (110,000 French francs)	Sistine Madonna	File:RAFAEL - Madonna Sixtina (Gemäldegalerie Alter Meister, Dresde, 1513-14. Óleo sobre lienzo, 265 x 196 cm).jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1513–1514	Template:Dts	Piacenza	Augustus III of Poland	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.08 million (£16,000)	Adoration of the Mystic Lamb	File:Lamgods open.jpg	Template:Sort	1432	Template:Dts	Edward Solly	Frederick William III of Prussia	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.12 million (615,300 French francs)	The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables	File:Murillo immaculate conception.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1678	Template:Dts	Jean-de-Dieu Soult	Louvre, Paris	Paris<ref name=gwr/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$0.35 million (£70,000)	Ansidei Madonna	File:PalaAnsidei.jpg	Template:Sort	1505–1507	Template:Dts	George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough	National Gallery, London	Private sale<ref name=gwr/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
$0.5 million	Colonna Altarpiece	File:Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1503-1505	Template:Dts	Charles Sedelmeyer	J. P. Morgan	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.51 million	Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo	File:Marchesa Elena Grimaldi c1623 Anthony van Dyck.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1623	Template:Dts	Knoedler	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.51 million	The Mill	File:DeMolenRembrandt.jpg	Template:Sort	1645/48	Template:Dts	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$0.6 million	Small Cowper Madonna	File:Raffaello Madonna Cowper.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1504–1505	Template:Dts	Joseph Joel Duveen	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$1.6 million	Benois Madonna	File:Leonardo, Madonna Benois.JPG	Template:Sort	Template:Circa 1478–1480	Template:Dts	Benois family	Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$2 million	Study of a Young Woman	File:Vermeer-Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg	Template:Sort	c. 1665-1667	Template:Dts	Prince d'Arenberg	Charles Wrightsman	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$2.3 million	Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer	File:Rembrandt - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer - WGA19232.jpg	Template:Sort	1653	Template:Dts	Estate of Mrs Alfred Erickson	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	Parke-Bernet, New York<ref name=gwr/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
$5-$6 million	Ginevra de' Benci	File:Leonardo da Vinci - Ginevra de' Benci - Google Art Project.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa	Template:Dts	Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	Private sale<ref name=gwr/>
$5.5 million (£2.3 million)	Portrait of Juan de Pareja	File:Retrato de Juan Pareja, by Diego Velázquez.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa	Template:Dts	Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	Christie's, London<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=gwr>Template:Cite book</ref>
$6.4 million	Juliet and her Nurse		Template:Sort	1836	Template:Dts	Trustees of Whitney Museum	María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York<ref name=gwr82>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$10.0 million (£7.47 million)	Seascape: Folkestone		Template:Sort	Template:Circa	Template:Dts	Estate of Kenneth Clark	Unknown	Sotheby's, London<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
$10.5 million	Adoration of the Magi	File:Andrea Mantegna - Trittico - Google Art Project.jpg	Template:Sort	1462	Template:Dts	Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton	J. Paul Getty Museum	Christie's, New York<ref name=wilson/>
$39.7 million (£24.75 million)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	File:Van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp./Sompo Holdings<ref name=heirs/>	Christie's, London
$53.9 million	Irises	File:Irises-Vincent van Gogh.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond	Sotheby's, New York
$58 million plus exchange of works<ref group="note">The paintings transferred to the dealers include a late Monet entitled Corona (Water Lilies) from around 1920; Renoir's Reclining Nude of 1902; Kandinsky's Autumn Landscape, Murnau from 1908, and Picasso's Striped Bodice from September 1943.</ref>	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	File:Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Joseph Roulin.jpg	Template:Sort	1889	Template:Dts	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich<ref name=kimmelman/>
$82.5 million	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	File:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg	Template:Sort	1890	Template:Dts	Siegfried Kramarsky heirs	Ryoei Saito<ref name=mostwanted/><ref name=sb/><ref name=gachet/>	Christie's, New York
$104.2 million	Garçon à la pipe	File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg	Template:Sort	1905	Template:Dts	Greentree Foundation (Whitney family)	Guido Barilla (suspected)<ref name=garcon1/>	Sotheby's, New York<ref name=garcon2/>
$135 million	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	File:Gustav Klimt, 1907, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Neue Galerie New York.jpg	Template:Sort	1907	Template:Dts	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's<ref name=vogeljune06/>
$140 million	No. 5, 1948		Template:Sort	1948	Template:Dts	David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's<ref name=vogelnov06/>
$250 million+<ref group="note">Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million</ref>	The Card Players	File:Paul Cézanne 222.jpg	Template:Sort	1892/93	Template:Dts	George Embiricos	State of Qatar	Private sale<ref name=wel/>
~$300 million	Interchange	File:Photo of Interchanged by Willem de Kooning.jpg	Template:Sort	1955	Template:Dts	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale<ref name=halfabillion/>
$450.3 million	Salvator Mundi	File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Circa	Template:Dts	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud<ref name=kirkpatrick/>	Christie's, New York<ref name=wsj/>

See also

• Market for artworks
• Destination painting
• The Price of Everything, 2018 documentary on contemporary art valuations
• The Lost Leonardo, 2021 documentary on the 2017 sale of the Salvador Mundi
• List of most expensive artworks by living artists
• List of most expensive books and manuscripts
• List of most expensive cars sold at auction
• List of most expensive non-fungible tokens
• List of most expensive photographs
• List of most expensive sculptures
• List of most expensive watches sold at auction

External links

• The Most Expensive Paintings ever sold list by theartwolf
• Template:Webarchive
• Most Expensive Artworks of 2024