Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold Privately and at Auctions, $140 million – Jackson Pollock
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100s of Millions of dollars spent by art lovers and patrons to own the world’s greatest masterpieces.
Here is a collection of 17 Most Expensive paintings that set a milestone in the art Auction’s world.

#17 Vincent van Gogh: Wheat Field with Cypresses

Sold for $57 million in 1993.
Inflation-adjusted value: $86.4 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by the son of Emil Georg Bührle
to Walter H. Annenberg in 1993.

#16 False Start: Jasper Johns

Sold for $80 million in 2006. Inflation-adjusted value: $86 million.
Buyer/Seller: David Geffen to Kenneth C. Griffin

#15 Francis Bacon: Triptych 1976

Sold for $86.3 million in 2008.
Inflation-adjusted value: $87 million.
Buyer/Seller: The Moueix Family to Roman Abramovich.

#14 Peter Paul Rubens: Massacre of the Innocents

Sold for $76.7 million in 2002.
Inflation-adjusted value: $93 million.
Buyer/Seller: An Austrian family to Kenneth Thomson.

#13 Gustav Klimt: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II

Sold for $87.9 million in 2006.
Inflation-adjusted value: $95.2 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Maria Altmann to an unknown buyer.

#12 Vincent van Gogh: Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe

Sold for $71.5 million in 1998.
Inflation-adjusted value: $95.3 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Heirs of Jacques Koerfer to an unknown buyer.

#11 Andy Warhol: 8 Elvises

Sold for $100 million in 2008.
Inflation-adjusted value: $100.9 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Annibale Berlingieri to an unknown buyer.

#10 Vincent van Gogh: Irises

Sold for $59.3 million in 1987.
Inflation-adjusted value: $102 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Whitney Payson to Alan Bond.

#9 Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar au Chat

Sold for $95.2 million in 2006.
Inflation-adjusted value: $102.7 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by the Gidwitz family to Boris Ivanishvili.

#8 Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Joseph Roulin

Sold for $58 million in 1989.
Inflation-adjusted value: $101.7 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by a private collector in Zürich
to the Museum of Modern Art New York.

#7 Pablo Picasso: Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

Sold for $106.5 million in 2010.
Inflation-adjusted value: $106.6 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Frances Lasker Brody to an unknown buyer.

#6 Pablo Picasso: Garçon à la pipe

Sold for $104.2 million in 2004.
Inflation-adjusted value: $120.3 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Greentree Foundation to Guido Barilla in 2004.

#5 Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Bal du moulin de la Galette

Sold for $78.1 million in 1990.
Inflation-adjusted value: $132 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Betsey Whitney to Ryoei Saito.

#4 Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Sold for $82.5 million in 1990.
Inflation-adjusted value: $139.5 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Siegfried Kramarsky to Ryoei Saito.

#3 Gustav Klimt: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Sold for $135 million in 2006.
Inflation-adjusted value: $145.3 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by Maria Altmann to Ronald Lauder and Neue Galerie.

#2 Willem de Kooning: Woman III

Sold for $137.5 million in 2006.
Inflation-adjusted value: $149.1million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by David Geffen to Steven A. Cohen.

#1 Jackson Pollock: No. 5, 1948

Sold for $140 million in 2006.
Inflation-adjusted value: $151.8 million.
Buyer/Seller: Sold by David Geffen to Steven A. Cohen.