$39.

7 Million

Vase with Fifteen

Sunflowers, painted in 1888
by Vincent van Gogh, was
sold to Yasuo Goto for
$39.7M (24.75M) on March
30, 1987.Seller Helen
Beatty, daughter-in-law of
Chester Beatty

Vase with Fifteen

Sunflowers
 $47.5
Million

Peasant Woman Against a

Background of Wheat,
painted in 1890 by Vincent
van Gogh, was sold to
Steve Wynn for $47.5M in
1997

Peasant Woman
Against a
Background of
Wheat
 $49.3
Million

Les Noces de
Pierrette
Les Noces de Pierrette, painted in 1905 by
Pablo Picasso, was sold to Tomonori
Tsurumaki for $49.3M on November 30,
1989
 $53.9
Million

Iris
es
Irises, painted in 1889 by Vincent van Gogh, was
sold to Alan Bond for $53.9M on November 11,
1987
 $55.0
Million

Femme aux
Femme aux Bras
Bras Croiss,
Croiss,
painted in
painted in 1902
1902 byby Pablo
Pablo
Picasso, was
Picasso, was sold
sold for
for $55.0M
$55.0M
on November
on November 8, 8, 2000.
2000. Seller
Seller
McCormick family,
McCormick family, Chicago
Chicago

Femme aux Bras

Croiss
 $57
Million

A
Wheatfield
with
Cypresses
A Wheatfield with Cypresses, painted in 1889 by
Vincent van Gogh, was sold to Walter H. Annenberg for
$57M on May 1993. Buyer Walter H. Annenberg
 $60.5
Million

Rideau,
Cruchon et
Compotier

Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, painted in 1894 by Paul

Czanne, was sold for $60.5M on May 10, 1999. Buyer
Seller Whitney Family
 $63.4
Million

Men in Her Life, painted

in 1962 by Andy Warhol,
was sold to Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa Al-
Thani for $63.4M on
November 8, 2010
It is a black and white
painting inspired by the
life of Elizabeth Taylor, a
seven foot tall creation
of the artist.

Men in Her
Life
 $63.5
Million

Police
Gazette
Police Gazette, painted in 1955 by Willem de Kooning, was
sold to Steven A. Cohen for $63.5M on October 12, 2006
 $66.3 Million

LAlle des Alyscamps,

painted in 1888 by Vincent
van Gogh, was sold for
$66.3M on May 5, 2015.
is a pair of paintings by
Dutch painter Vincent van
Gogh. Painted in 1888 in
Arles, France, it depicts
autumnal scenes in the
Alyscamps, an ancient
Roman necropolis in Arles
which is lined with poplars
and stone sarcophagi.
LAlle des
Alyscamps
 $67.45
Million

La Gommeuse, painted in 1901

by Pablo Picasso, was sold for
$67.45M on November 5, 2015.
Seller William I. Koch.
Is a 1901 oil on canvas painting
by the Spanish artist Pablo
Picasso. It dates from his so-
called Blue period and is noted
for its caricature of Picasso's
friend Pere Maach painted on
the reverse. It was offered for
sale ex the William I. Koch
collection at a Sotheby's, New
York, auction on 5 November
2015.
La
Gommeus
 $68 Million

The Gross Clinic, painted

in 1875 by Thomas
Eakins, was sold to
Philadelphia Museum of
Art for $68M on April 12,
2007. Seller Thomas
Jefferson University
It is oil on canvas and
measures 8 feet by 6.5
feet . Dr. Samuel D. Gross,
a seventy-year-old
professor dressed in a
black frock coat, lectures
a group of Jefferson
Medical College students.
The Gross
Clinic
$69.0
Million

Nude Sitting on a Divan,

painted in 1917 by Amedeo
Modigliani, was sold for
$69.0M on November 2, 2010.
Seller Halit Cnglloglu
The work was one of a series
of nudes painted by Modigliani
in 1917 that created a
sensation when exhibited in
Paris that year.

Nude Sitting on a
Divan
$70.6
Million
Diana and Actaeon,
painted in 15561559
by Titian, was sold to
the National Galleries
of Scotland& National
Gallery, London for
$70.6M on February 1,
2009. Seller Duke of
Sutherland
Considered amongst
Titian's greatest
works. It portrays the
moment in which the
goddess Diana meets
Actaeon.
Diana and
Actaeon
 $71.5 Million

Portrait de l'artiste sans

barbe, painted in 1889 by
Vincent van Gogh, was sold
for $71.5M on November
19, 1998. Seller Heirs of
Jacques Koerfer.
Van Gogh's dozens of self-
portraits were an important
part of his oeuvre as a
painter. Most probably, Van
Gogh's self-portraits are
depicting the face as it
appeared in the mirror he
used to reproduce his face,
i.e. his right side in the
image is in reality the left
side of his de
Portrait face.
l'artiste
sans barbe
 $71.7
Million

Green Car
Crash

Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), painted in 1963 by Andy
Warhol, was sold to Philip Niarchos for $71.7M on May 16, 2007.
Seller Private collection, Zrich.
Green Car Crash is a painting by the American artist Andy Warhol.
 $72.8
Million

White Center (Yellow, Pink

and Lavender on Rose),
painted in 1950 by Mark
Rothko, was sold to Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani for
$72.8M on May 15, 2007
Seller David Rockefeller

White
Center
 $75
Million
Darmstadt Madonna, painted
in 1526 by Hans Holbein, was
sold to Reinhold Wrth for
~$75M (50-60M) on July 12,
2011. Seller Donatus,
Landgrave of Hesse.
The work shows the
Brgermeister of Basel Jakob
Meyer zum Hasen, his first
wife , his current wife, and his
daughter grouped around the
Madonna and infant Jesus. The
meaning of the two other male
figures on the left side is, like
the overall iconography of the
image, not entirely clear. The
image testified to the
resolutely Catholic faith of the
Brgermeister, who actively
Darmstadt
opposed the Reformation.
Madonna
$75.1
Million

No 1 (Royal Red and Blue),

painted in 1954 by Mark
Rothko, was sold for
$75.1M on November 13,
2012. Seller John and Anne
Marion
Color Field painting by the
Abstract expressionist
artist Mark Rothko.

No 1 (Royal Red
and Blue)
 $78.1
Million

Bal du moulin
de la Galette

Bal du moulin de la Galette, painted in 1876 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir,

was sold to Ryoei Saito for $78.1M on May 17, 1990. Seller Betsey
Whitney.
It is housed at the Muse d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's
most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday
afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In
 $80.5
Million

Le Bassin aux
Nymphas
Le Bassin aux Nymphas, painted in 1919 by Claude Monet,
was sold for $80.5M (40.9M) on June 24, 2008. Seller J.
Irwin and Xenia S. Miller.
 $81.9
Million

Triple
Elvis
Triple Elvis, painted in 1963 by Andy Warhol, was sold for $81.9M
on November 12, 2014. Seller WestSpiel. is a 1963 painting by
the American artist Andy Warhol
$82.5 Million

Portrait of Dr. Gachet,

painted in 1890 by Vincent
van Gogh, was sold to Ryoei
Saito for $82.5M on May 15,
1990. Seller Siegfried
Kramarsky family.
Is one of the most revered
paintings by the Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh. It depicts
Dr. Paul Gachet who took
care of Van Gogh during the
final months of his life.
There are two authenticated
versions of the portrait, both
painted in June 1890 at
Auvers-sur-Oise. Both show
Gachet sitting at a table and
leaning his head on his right
arm but they
Portrait are easily
of Dr.
differentiated
Gachet in color and
style.
 $86.9
Million
Orange, Red, Yellow,
painted in 1961 by Mark
Rothko, was sold for
$86.9M on May 8, 2012.
Seller Estate of David
Pincus.
The seller was the estate
of David Pincus and the
sale price represents a
record nominal price for
Post-War contemporary
art at public auction and
for Rothko works in
general.

Orange,
Red
 $87.9
Million

Adele Bloch-Bauer II,

painted in 1912 by Gustav
Klimt, was sold for $87.9M
on November 2, 2006.
Seller Maria Altmann

Adele Bloch-
Bauer II
 $95.2
Million

Dora Maar au Chat, painted in

1941 by Pablo Picasso, was
sold to Boris Ivanishvili for
$95.2M on May 3, 2006. Seller
Gidwitz family.
It depicts Dora Maar, the
painter's lover, seated on a
chair with a small cat perched
on her shoulders. This work is
one of the world's most
expensive paintings.

Dora Maar au
Chat
 $104.2 Million

Garon la pipe, painted in

1905 by Pablo Picasso, was
sold for $104.2M on May 4,
2004, possibly to Barilla
Group. Seller Greentree
foundation (Whitney family).
It was painted in 1905 when
Picasso was 24 years old,
during his Rose Period, soon
after he settled in the
Montmartre section of Paris,
France. The oil on canvas
painting depicts a Parisian
boy holding a pipe in his left
hand and wearing a garland
orGaron
wreath ofla
flowers.
pipe
 $106.5
Million

Nude, Green Leaves and

Bust, painted in 1932 by
Pablo Picasso, was sold
for $106.5M on May 4,
2010. Seller Frances
Lasker Brody estate.
Pablo Picasso, featuring
his mistress Marie-
Thrse Walter.

Nude, Green Leaves

and Bust
 $110.0
Millon

Fla
g
Flag, painted in 1954 by Jasper Johns, was sold to Steven A. Cohen for
$110.0M on March 2010. Seller Jean-Christophe Castelli.
Flag is an encaustic painting by the American artist Jasper Johns.
Created when Johns was 24 , two years after he was discharged from
the US Army, this painting was the first of many works that Johns has
said were inspired by a dream of the U.S. flag in 1954. It is arguably
 $119.9
Million
The Scream, painted in 1895
by Edvard Munch, was sold
to Leon Black for $119.9M
on May 2, 2012. Seller Petter
Olsen.
The Scream is the popular
name given to each of four
versions of a composition,
created as both paintings
and pastels, by the
Expressionist artist Edvard
Munch between 1893 and
1910. Der Schrei der Natur is
the title Munch gave to
these works, all of which
show a figure with an
agonized expression against
a landscape with a
tumultuous orange sky.
Arthur Lubow has described
TheThe
Scream as "an icon of
Scream
 $135 Million

Maria Altmann

Portrait of Adele
Bloch-Bauer
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, painted in 1907 by Gustav Klimt, was
sold to Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie for $135M on June 18, 2006.
Seller Maria Altmann.
The first of two portraits Klimt painted of Bloch-Bauer, it has been
Maria Altmann (February 18, 1916
February 7, 2011) was an Austrian-
American Jewish refugee from Nazi
Austria, noted for her ultimately
successful legal campaign to reclaim
from the Government of Austria five
family-owned paintings by the artist
Gustav Klimt stolen by the Nazis
during World War II.
Altmann is the central figure in the
2015 film Woman in Gold where she
A
is share of the
depicted moneyMirren
by Helen earnedand
through the sale of the pictures was
Tatiana Maslany.
used to found the Maria Altmann
Family Foundation, which supports
the Los Angeles Museum of the
Holocaust and other public and
philanthropic institutions.
 $137.5
Million

Woman III, painted in 1953 by

Willem de Kooning, was sold to
Steven A. Cohen for $137.5M on
November 18, 2006. Seller
David Geffen.
Is a painting by abstract
expressionist painter Willem de
Kooning. Woman III is one of a
series of six paintings by de
Kooning done between 1951 and
1953 in which the central theme
was a woman. It measures 68 by
48 12 inches and was
completed in 1953.
Woman
III
 $140 Million

No. 5, 1948, painted in 1948 by

Jackson Pollock, was sold to David
Martinez for $140M on November
2, 2006. Seller David Geffen.
No. 5, 1948 is a painting by
Jackson Pollock, an American
painter known for his contributions
to the abstract expressionist
movement.

No. 5
 $142.4
million

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, painted in 1969 by Francis Bacon, was

sold to Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn for $142.4M on November
12, 2013.
Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the
Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud. It
was sold in November 2013 for $142.4 million, which at the time was the
highest price attained at auction for a work of art when not factoring in
 $155
Million

Le Rve, painted in 1932 by

Pablo Picasso, was sold to
Steven A. Cohen for $155M on
March 26, 2013. Seller Steve
Wynn.
Le Rve is a 1932 oil painting by
Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old,
portraying his 22-year-old
mistress Marie-Thrse Walter. It
is said to have been painted in
one afternoon, on 24 January
1932. It belongs to Picasso's
period of distorted depictions,
with its oversimplified outlines
and contrasted colors
Le
resembling early Fauvism.
Rve
 $170.4
Million

Nu
Couch
Nu Couch, painted in 1917/18 by Amedeo Modigliani, was sold to Liu
Yiqian for $170.4M on November 9, 2015. Seller Laura Mattioli Rossi.
Nu couch is a 1917 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo
Modigliani. It is one of his most widely reproduced and exhibited
paintings.
 $179.4
Million

Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O"), painted in 1955 by Pablo Picasso,

was sold to Private collection for $179.4M on May 11, 2015.
Les Femmes d'Alger is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings
by the Spanish cubist artist Pablo Picasso. The series was inspired by
Eugne Delacroix's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their
Apartment . The series is one of several painted by Picasso in tribute to
 $180
Million

Penda
nt

Rembrandt, is the 3rd most expensive painting in the world.

The pair was sPendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, painted in
1634 by old to the Rijksmuseum Louvre for $180M (160M) on September 2015.
Seller ric de Rothschild.
The Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit are a pair of full-
length wedding portraits by Rembrandt. Formerly owned by the Rothschild family,
they became jointly owned by the Louvre Museum and the Rijksmuseum in 2015
after both museums managed to contribute half of the purchase price of 160
 $259 Million

The Card Players, painted in

1892/93 by Paul Czanne, is
the 2nd most expensive
painting in the world. It was
sold to State of Qatar for
over $259M on April 2011.
Seller George Embiricos.

The Card
Players
 $300 million

Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You

Marry?), painted in 1892 by Paul
Gauguin is the world's most
expensive painting. It was sold for
~$300M on February 2015,
possibly to the State of Qatar.
Seller Rudolf Staechelin family.
When Will You Marry? is an oil
painting from 1892 by the French
Post-Impressionist artist Paul
Gauguin. On loan to the
Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland
for nearly a half-century, it was
sold privately by the family of
Rudolf Staechelin to Sheikha Al-
Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, in
February 2015 for close to US $300
million, the highest price ever paid
for a work of art. The painting was
on exhibition at the Fondation
Nafea Riehen,
Beyeler, Faa until 28 June
Ipoipo
2015.