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List of most expensive paintings

Paintings sold for the highest price

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 () generally considered to be by Leonardo da Vinci, though this is disputed. The painting was sold in November 2017, 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$100 million on 14 December 1962. Taking only inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$ billion in .

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 (£ million in 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 (£ million in 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. 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. In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874.

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. [[File:Red vineyards.jpg|thumb|[[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. Though the Louvre Museum had turned down the opportunity to purchase it for €100 million, the painting was estimated to sell for $110 to $170 million. The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale. 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, but the price was not confirmed by any of the parties involved.

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 (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch.

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 $44.4 million (equivalent to US$ million in ).

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. 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.

List of highest prices paid

This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in .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. 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	$	US	300	2015	r=0}}"	~$	$ +	$	US	200	2015	r=0}}"	~$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$ +	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	US	75	2011	r=0}}	~$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
$450.3	Salvator Mundi	[[File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg	95px]]
(attribution disputed)			1	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud	url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/leonardo-da-vinci-painting-salvator-mundi-sells-for-450-3-million-1510794281	title=Leonardo da Vinci Painting 'Salvator Mundi' Sells for $450.3 Million	last=Crow	first=Kelly	date=2017-11-16	work=The Wall Street Journal	access-date=2017-11-16	issn=0099-9660}}
~$300	Interchange	[[File:Photo of Interchanged by Willem de Kooning.jpg	95px]]		1955		1	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/billionaire-griffin-said-to-pay-500-million-for-two-paintings	title=Billionaire Griffin Pays $500 Million for Two Paintings	last=Kazakina	first=Katya	newspaper=Bloomberg Business	date=February 18, 2016	access-date=February 23, 2016}}
$250 +Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million	The Card Players	[[File:Paul Cézanne 222.jpg	95px]]		1892/93		1	George Embiricos	State of Qatar	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923174219/http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/12569/250-m-a-new-record-for-a-painting/	date=2015-09-23 }}, 4 May 2011
$210	*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	95px]]		1892		2	Rudolf Staechelin heirs	State of Qatar	Private sale
~$200	Number 17A			1948		4	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale
$183.8	Wasserschlangen II	[[File:Klimt - Wasserschlangen II (Freundinnen) - 1904.jpeg	95px]]		1904–1907		2	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale
$186
(€140)	No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)			1951		3	Cherise Moueix	Dmitry Rybolovlev	url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/a-186-million-rothko-pits-russian-tycoon-against-art-merchant	work=Bloomberg	first=Stephanie	last=Baker	title=The Billionaire, the Dealer, and the $186 Million Rothko	date=April 27, 2015}}
$180
(€160 million)	Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit	[[File:Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit.jpeg	95px]]		1634		7	Éric de Rothschild	Rijksmuseum
and Louvre	Private sale
$179.4	*Les Femmes d'Alger
("Version O")*			1955		5	Private collection	Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani	url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/two-art-works-top-100-million-each-at-christies-sale/	title=Picasso and Giacometti Artworks Top $120 Million Each at Christie's Sale	date=11 May 2015	work=The New York Times	access-date=12 May 2015	first=Scott	last=Reyburn}}
$236.3	Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer	[[File:Gustav Klimt Porträt der Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt.jpg	95px]]		1914-1916		10	Estate of Leonard Lauder		Sotheby's, New York
$198
(€175)	The Standard Bearer	[[File:Rembrandt - De vaandeldrager (Q21467444).jpeg	95px]]		1636		10	Rothschild family	Rijksmuseum	Private sale
$170.4	Nu couché	[[File:Modigliani - Nu couché.jpg	95px]]		1917/18		9	Laura Mattioli Rossi	Liu Yiqian	url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/arts/with-170-4-million-sale-at-auction-modigliani-work-joins-rarefied-nine-figure-club.html?hp/	title=With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club	date=9 November 2015	work=The New York Times	access-date=9 November 2015	first1=Robin	last1=Pogrebin	first2=Scott	last2=Reyburn}}
$140	No. 5, 1948			1948		1	David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's
$137.5	Woman III			1953		2	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian
$165.0	Masterpiece			1962		12	Agnes Gund	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale
$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	[[File:Gustav Klimt, 1907, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Neue Galerie New York.jpg	95px]]		1907		1	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's
$195	Shot Sage Blue Marilyn			1964		11	Thomas and Doris Ammann	Larry Gagosian	Christie's, New York
$155	Le Rêve			1932		6	Steve Wynn	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale
$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	[[File:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg	95px]]		1890		1	Siegfried Kramarsky heirs	Ryoei Saito	Christie's, New York
$157.2	Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)	[[File:Amedeo Modigliani 014.jpg	95px]]		1917			Ezra and David Nahmad		Sotheby's, New York
$150	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II	[[File:Gustav Klimt 047.jpg	85px	center]]		1912		10	Oprah WinfreyOprah 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.	Unidentified buyer in China	Private sale via Larry Gagosian
$142.4	Three Studies of Lucian Freud			1969		8		Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn	url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html?hp&_r=0	title=Bacon's Study of Freud Sells for $142.4 Million	last=Vogel	first=Carol	newspaper=The New York Times	date=November 12, 2013	access-date=November 13, 2013}}
$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette
This is the small version of the painting; the large version is at the Musée d'Orsay.	[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg	95px]]		1876		2	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei Saito	Sotheby's, New York
$140.8
(¥931.5)	Twelve Landscape Screens		Qi Baishi	1925					Beijing Poly Auction
$104.2	Garçon à la pipe	[[File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg	95px]]		1905		3	Greentree Foundation
(Whitney family)	Guido Barilla (suspected)	Sotheby's, New York
$149.2	Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)	[[File:Georges Seurat 047.jpg	95px]]	Georges Seurat	1888		1	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$119.9	The ScreamOne of two pastel versions; another two painted versions (and lithography) exist, all created by Munch.	[[File:The Scream Pastel.jpg	95px]]		1895		8	Petter Olsen	Leon Black	Sotheby's, New York
$120	Otahi	[[File:Paul Gauguin 093.jpg	95px]]		1893		10	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale
$118	Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion	[[File:Amedeo Modigliani Nu Couché au coussin Bleu.jpg	95px]]		1916		8	Steven A. Cohen	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier
$137.7	La Montagne Sainte-Victoire	[[File:Montagne Sainte-Victoire, par Paul Cézanne 114.jpg	95px]]	Paul Cezanne	1888-1890		2	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$110.0	**This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist.			1958		7	Jean-Christophe Castelli	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale, estimated price
$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust			1932		9	Frances Lasker Brody estate	Leonard Blavatnik (suspected)	Christie's, New York
Kandinsky]]'s Autumn Landscape, Murnau from 1908, and Picasso's Striped Bodice from September 1943.	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Joseph Roulin.jpg	95px]]		1889		1	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via
Thomas Ammann,
Fine Art Zurich
$107.5	L’Homme assis au verre			1914			Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via
Yves Bouvier
$53.9	Irises	[[File:Irises-Vincent van Gogh.jpg	95px]]		1889		1	John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan BondAlan Bond could not pay off the painting, and Irises was resold (probably for somewhat less) to the Getty Museum.	Sotheby's, New York
$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat			1941		6	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili	Sotheby's, New York
$100.0	Eight Elvises			1963		10	Annibale Berlingieri	The State of Qatar (suspected)	Private sale via Philippe Ségalot
$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	65px	center]]		1905			David and Peggy Rockefeller	The Nahmad family	Christie's, New York
$139.3	Femme à la montre		Pablo Picasso	1932			Emily Fisher Landau's estate	Anonymous buyer	Sotheby's, New York
¥]]10,300)	Anna's Light			1968			DIC Corp.		Private sale
$105.4	Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)			1963					Sotheby's, New York
$110.5	Untitled			1982			Emily and Jerry Spiegel	Yusaku Maezawa	Sotheby's, New York
$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	[[File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 102.jpg	95px]]		1889		5	heirs		Christie's, New York
$110.7	Meules	[[File:Claude Monet - Meules (W 1273).jpg	95px]]		1890				Hasso Plattner	Sotheby's, New York
$117.1	Verger avec cyprès	[[File:Van Gogh - Blühender Obstgarten mit Pfirsichbäumen.jpeg	95px]]	Vincent van Gogh	1888		3	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$100	La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir	[[File:Sainte-Victoire.jpg	95px]]		1904	Exact date of sale is not known.		Edsel and Eleanor Ford House	State of Qatar	Private sale
$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	95px]]		1611		6	an Austrian family	Kenneth Thomson	Sotheby's, London
$95.4	Nurse			1964					Christie's, New York
$86.3	Triptych, 1976			1976			Jean-Pierre Moueix heirs	Roman Abramovich	Sotheby's, New York
$49.3
(F300)	Les Noces de Pierrette	[[File:Lesnoces.JPG	95px]]		1905		3		Tomonori Tsurumaki	Binoche et Godeau Paris
$80.0	**			1959		11	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale via Richard Gray
$85
(€54)	Te Fare	[[File:Te Fare (La maison) Paul Gauguin 1892.jpg	95px]]		1892			Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale
$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses (National Gallery version).jpg	95px]]		1889		6	Emil Georg Bührle's son	Walter H. AnnenbergAnnenberg subsequently donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.	Private sale via Steven Mazoh
$100	Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump			1982	2020		last=Johnson	first=Steve	date=July 25, 2020	title=Now hanging at the Art Institute: Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin's new, $100 million Basquiat canvas	work=Chicago Tribune	url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-griffin-basquiat-art-institute-loan-0725-20200725-g2l2lzlkhfdh7dpobezyvqw4p4-story.html	access-date=2020-09-30}}	Ken Griffin	Private sale
$105.7	Maternitè II	[[File:Paul gauguin maternit233 ii100257).jpg	95px]]	Paul Gauguin	1899		4	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$47.8	Yo, Picasso	[[File:Yo, Picasso.jpg	95px]]		1901		2	Wendell Cherry	Stavros Niarchos	Sotheby's, New York
$104.5	Birch Forest	[[File:Gustav Klimt, Birch Forest, 1903 - Paul G. Allen Collection.jpg	95px]]		1903		5	Paul G. Allen		Christie's, New York
$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn			1964			Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian
$121.2	The Empire of Light		René Magritte	1954		1	Mica Ertegun		Christie's, New York
$103.4	Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)		Pablo Picasso	1932					Christie's, New York
$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	95px]]	Titian	1533		10	Axa insurance company	Getty Museum	Private sale via
Hervé Aaron
$86.9	Orange, Red, Yellow			1961			David Pincus estate		Christie's, New York
$80.5
(£40.9)	Le Bassin aux Nymphéas	[[File:Le bassin aux nymphéas - Claude Monet.jpg	95px]]		1919			J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller	Andrey Melnichenko	Christie's, London
$91.9	Chop Suey			1929			Barney A. Ebsworth estate		Christie's, New York
$60.5	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier	[[File:Paulcezanneart.jpg	95px]]		1894		9	Whitney Family		Sotheby's, New York
$90.3	Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)			1972				Pierre Chen	Christie's, New York
$108.4	Lady with a Fan	[[File:Gustav Klimt - Dame mit Fächer.jpeg	frameless	95px]]		1917-8				Patti Wong, on behalf of a Hong Kong buyer	Sotheby's, London
$84.2	Black Fire I			1961			Private Collection	Anonymous	url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/salebrowse.aspx?intsaleid=24436&viewType=list&action=sort&sid=2127a118-31e5-4542-baad-40f34d1a44c5&sortby=ehigh	title=Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale – Fine Art Auction – Search Results – Christie's	access-date=5 October 2014}}
$72.8	*White Center (Yellow, Pink
and Lavender on Rose)*			1950			David Rockefeller, Sr.	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani	Sotheby's, New York
$39.7
(£24.75)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	[[File:Van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.jpg	95px]]		1889		1	Helen Beatty,
daughter-in-law of
Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp./Sompo Holdings	Christie's, London
$88.8	Buffalo II			1964			Robert and Beatrice Mayer Estate	Alice Walton	url=https://www.christies.com/features/Robert-Rauschenberg-silkscreen-painting-Buffalo-II-9805-3.aspx	title=How Robert Rauschenberg 'rewrote the rules of the game'	website=www.christies.com	language=en	access-date=2020-02-09}}
$81.9	Triple Elvis			1963					Christie's, New York
$71.7	*Green Car Crash
(Green Burning Car I)*			1963			Private collection, Zürich	Philip Niarchos	Christie's, New York
$81.9	No. 10			1958					Christie's, New York
$93.1	In This Case			1983			Giancarlo Giammetti	Private collector	Christie's, New York
$85.8	Suprematist Composition	[[File:Suprematist Composition - Kazimir Malevich.jpg	95px]]		1916			The Nahmad family	Anonymous	Christie's, New York
$80.8	Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards			1984			Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York.
$92.2	Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel	[[File:Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel.jpg	95px]]	Sandro Botticelli				Sheldon Solow estate	Russian private collector	Sotheby's, New York
$81.4	Meule	[[File:Monet Grainstack in the Sunlight 1891.jpg	95px]]		1891					Christie's, New York
$84.7	Nymphéas en fleur	[[File:Claude Monet - Nympheas en fleur.jpg	95px]]		1914–1917			David and Peggy Rockefeller	url=https://en.thevalue.com/articles/christies-new-york-2018-may-david-rockefeller-sale-of-the-century-xin-li-cohen-monet-matisse	title=Christie's 'Secret Weapon' in Rockefeller's 'Sale of the Century' Auctions News THE VALUE Art News	website=TheValue.com	language=en-US	access-date=2020-02-09}}	Christie's, New York
~$75
(€50–60)Usually estimated at "over €50 M" or "between 50 and 60 million Euros". On July 12, 2011, $75M was equivalent to €53M.	Darmstadt Madonna	[[File:Darmstadtmadonna.jpg	95px]]		1526			Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse	Reinhold Würth	Private sale via
Christoph Graf Douglas
$81.3	Laboureur dans un champ	[[File:Van Gogh - Acker mit pflügenden Bauern.jpeg	95px]]		1889			Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass estate		Christie's, New York
$84.55	Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus			1981			Hans Rasmus Astrup		Sotheby's, New York
$70.6
(£50)	Diana and Actaeon		Titian	1556–1559			Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland
& National Gallery, London	Private sale
$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	95px]]		1904		5	Linda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Whitney Payson	Walter H. Annenberg	Sotheby's, New York
$68	The Gross Clinic	[[File:Thomas Eakins, American - Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) - Google Art Project.jpg	95px]]		1875			Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Private sale
$75.1	No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)			1954			John and Anne Marion		Sotheby's, New York
$38.5
(£20.9)	Acrobate et jeune arlequin (Acrobat and Young Harlequin)
Re-sold for £12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993.			1905		3	Roger Janssen heirs?
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"	Mitsukoshi	Christie's, London
$80.8	Odalisque couchée aux magnolias			1923			David and Peggy Rockefeller	Xin Li-Cohen	Christie's, New York
$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	95px]]		1902			Chauncey McCormick heirs		Christie's, New York
$69.0	Nude Sitting on a Divan	[[File:Amedeo Modigliani 063.jpg	85px	center]]		1917			Halit Cıngıllıoglu		Sotheby's, New York
$63.5	Police Gazette			1955			David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Richard Gray.
$85	Untitled			1982			Yusaku Maezawa	Taiwanese collector	Philips, New York
$71.7
(£45)	Diana and Callisto	[[File:TitianDianaCallistoEdinburgh.jpg	95px]]	Titian	1556–1559			Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland
& National Gallery, London	author=Pauline McLean	url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17220446	title=Titian masterpiece Diana and Callisto saved for nation	publisher=Bbc.co.uk	access-date=2012-03-01}}
$74	The High Sun	[[File:The High Sun -.jpg	95px	The High Sun]]	Wang Shaofei	2007			Legal entity of a prominent Japanese collector family	Anonymous (private collection represented by an international institution)	Private sale
$70.5	Untitled (New York City)			1968			Sydney M. Irmas heirs		Christie's, New York
$77
(¥512.9)	**	[[File:十面灵璧图卷前正面局部.jpg	95px]]	Wu Bin	1610			William Bernard Ziff Jr. heirs		Beijing Poly Auction
$49.5	Femme assise dans un jardin			1938			Robert Saidenberg		Sotheby's, New York
$70.2
(£42.2)	Portrait of George Dyer Talking			1966					Christie's, London
$47.5	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat	[[File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 097.jpg	95px]]		1890		11		Steve Wynn	Private sale via
Acquavella Galleries Inc.,
New York
$69.6	**			1970			Nicola del Roscio		Christie's, New York
$69.6	Four Marlons			1966			WestSpiel		Christie's, New York
$79.45	The Empire of Lights			1961			Anne-Marie Crowet Gillon heirs		Sotheby's, London
$65.5
(¥425.5)	Eagle Standing on Pine Tree	[[File:Qi Baishi Eagle.jpg	95px]]	Qi Baishi	1946			Liu Yiqian	Hunan TV & Broadcast
Intermediary Co	China Guardian Auctions
$63.4	Men in Her Life			1962			Jose Mugrabi	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani	Phillips de Pury & Company
$70.1	Contraste de formes	[[File:Contraste de formes, 1913 - Fernand Léger.jpg	100px]]		1913			and Stephen Kellen Foundation		Christie's, New York
$67.45	La Gommeuse	[[File:Pablo Picasso - La Gommeuse.jpg	85px	center]]		1901			William I. Koch		Sotheby's, New York.
$67.4	Buste de femme
(Femme à la résille)			1938			Steve Wynn	Joseph Lau	Christie's, New York
$35.2	Portrait of a Halberdier	[[File:Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Florentine) - Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) - Google Art Project.jpg	95px]]	Pontormo	1537		5	Chauncey Stillman	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$66.3	L’Allée des Alyscamps	[[File:Van Gogh - Les Alyscamps, Allee in Arles1.jpeg	95px]]		1888					Sotheby's, New York
$66.2	Untitled			1952			Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York
$66.3	Untitled XXV			1977					Christie's, New York
$62.1
(¥402.5)	Zhichuan Resettlement	[[File:ZhichuanResettlement.jpg	65px	center]]	Wang Meng	1350					Beijing Poly Auction
$69.2	Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)			1937			Private collection	Harry Smith	Sotheby's, London
$65.1	Spring	[[File:Édouard Manet - Jeanne (Spring).jpg	95px]]		1881			Oliver Hazard Payne heirs	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$68.9	Woman as Landscape			1955			Barney A. Ebsworth estate		Christie's, New York
$61.7	**			1949			City and County of Denver		Sotheby's, New York
$82.5	No. 7		Mark Rothko	1951			Private Collection	Laurence Escalante	Private sale
$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	95px]]		1889			Edwin L. Cox		Christie's, New York
$70.35	Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)	[[File:Water-Lily Pond Monet.jpg	95px]]	Claude Monet	1917-1919			Private Collection, New York, United States		Sotheby's, New York
$65.23
(HK$510.371)	Juin-Octobre 1985		Zao Wou-Ki	1985			Chang Qiu Dun		Sotheby's, Hong Kong

Progression of highest prices paid

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	95px]]					Augustus III of Poland	Private sale
$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	95px]]		1513–1514		Piacenza	Augustus III of Poland	Private sale
$0.08 million (£16,000)	Adoration of the Mystic Lamb	[[File:Lamgods open.jpg	95px]]		1432		Edward Solly	Frederick William III of Prussia	Private sale
$0.12 million (615,300 French francs)	The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables	[[File:Murillo immaculate conception.jpg	95px]]		1678		Jean-de-Dieu Soult	Louvre, Paris	url=https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/enciclopedia/voz/inmaculada-concepcion-de-los-venerables-o-de/6bb0aadc-4b8d-48d7-a14f-ca4d45a11e6d	title=Inmaculada Concepción de los Venerables o «de Soult», La [Murillo]	last=González	first=Enrique Valdivieso	publisher=Museo del Prado	language=Spanish	trans-title=Immaculate Conception of the Venerables or «de Soult», La [Murillo]	access-date=5 March 2024}}
$0.35 million (£70,000)	Ansidei Madonna	[[File:PalaAnsidei.jpg	95px]]		1505–1507		George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough	National Gallery, London	title=A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery	volume=1	author=Ruskin, J	year=1888	publisher=MacMillan & Company	location=London	pages=111–112	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YxFJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA111}}
$0.5 million	Colonna Altarpiece	[[File:Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints.jpg	95px]]		1503-1505		Charles Sedelmeyer	J. P. Morgan	Private sale
$0.51 million	Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo	[[File:Marchesa Elena Grimaldi c1623 Anthony van Dyck.jpg	95px]]		1623		Knoedler	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale
$0.51 million	The Mill	[[File:DeMolenRembrandt.jpg	95px]]		1645/48		Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale
$0.6 million	Small Cowper Madonna	[[File:Raffaello Madonna Cowper.jpg	95px]]		1504–1505		Joseph Joel Duveen	Peter Arrell Browne Widener	Private sale
$1.6 million	Benois Madonna	[[File:Leonardo, Madonna Benois.JPG	95px]]		1478–1480		Benois family	Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia	Private sale
$2 million	Study of a Young Woman	[[File:Vermeer-Portrait_of_a_Young_Woman.jpg	95px]]		c. 1665-1667		Prince d'Arenberg	Charles Wrightsman	Private sale
$2.3 million	Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer	[[File:Rembrandt - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer - WGA19232.jpg	95px]]		1653		Estate of Mrs Alfred Erickson	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/11/16/archives/museum-gets-rembrandt-for-23-million-record-price-is-paid-by-the.html?sq=aristotle+contemplating+a+bust+of+homer&scp=5&st=p	title=Museum Gets Rembrandt for 2.3 Million	last=Knox	first=Sanka	date=November 16, 1961	newspaper=The New York Times	page=1	access-date=March 5, 2024}}
$5-$6 million	Ginevra de' Benci	[[File:Leonardo da Vinci - Ginevra de' Benci - Google Art Project.jpg	95px]]				Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	Private sale
$5.5 million (£2.3 million)	Portrait of Juan de Pareja	[[File:Retrato_de_Juan_Pareja,_by_Diego_Velázquez.jpg	95px]]				Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	Christie's, London
$6.4 million	Juliet and her Nurse			1836		Trustees of Whitney Museum	María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat	title=Guinness Book of World Records	last1=McWhirter	first1=Norris	publisher=Bantam Books	year=1982	isbn=0-553-20356-8	pages=202–203	url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookof1982mcwh/page/202/mode/2up?view=theater	access-date=March 5, 2024	via=Internet Archive}}
$10.0 million (£7.47 million)	Seascape: Folkestone					Estate of Kenneth Clark	Unknown	Sotheby's, London
$10.5 million	Adoration of the Magi	[[File:Andrea_Mantegna_-_Trittico_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg	95px]]		1462		Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton	J. Paul Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$39.7 million
(£24.75 million)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	[[File:Van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.jpg	95px]]		1889		Helen Beatty,
daughter-in-law of
Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp./Sompo Holdings	Christie's, London
$53.9 million	Irises	[[File:Irises-Vincent van Gogh.jpg	95px]]		1889		John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond	Sotheby's, New York
Kandinsky]]'s Autumn Landscape, Murnau from 1908, and Picasso's Striped Bodice from September 1943.	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Joseph Roulin.jpg	95px]]		1889		Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via
Thomas Ammann,
Fine Art Zurich
$82.5 million	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	[[File:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg	95px]]		1890		Siegfried Kramarsky heirs	Ryoei Saito	Christie's, New York
$104.2 million	Garçon à la pipe	[[File:Garçon à la pipe.jpg	95px]]		1905		Greentree Foundation
(Whitney family)	Guido Barilla (suspected)	Sotheby's, New York
$135 million	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	[[File:Gustav Klimt, 1907, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Neue Galerie New York.jpg	95px]]		1907		Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's
$140 million	No. 5, 1948			1948		David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's
$250 million+Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million	The Card Players	[[File:Paul Cézanne 222.jpg	95px]]		1892/93		George Embiricos	State of Qatar	Private sale
~$300 million	Interchange	[[File:Photo of Interchanged by Willem de Kooning.jpg	95px]]		1955		David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale
$450.3 million	Salvator Mundi	[[File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg	95px]]				Dmitry Rybolovlev	Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud	Christie's, New York

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