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Here are some of “The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold”

PAUL CÉZANNE – “The Card Players”, 1892/93
$250 million – Private sale, 2011. Seller: George Embiricos. Buyer: Royal Family of Qatar.

JACKSON POLLOCK – “Number 5, 1948”, 1948
$140 million – Private sale, 2006. Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: Unknown (rumoured to be Mexican businessman David Martinez)

WILLEM DE KOONING – “Woman III”, 1952-53
$137.5 million – Private sale, 2006. Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: Steven Cohen

GUSTAV KLIMT – “Adele Bloch-bauer I”, 1907
$135 million – Private sale, 2006. Buyer: Ronald Lauder.

EDVARD MUNCH – “The Scream”, 1895
$119.9 million – Sotheby’s New York , May 2012. Buyer: anonymous

PABLO PICASSO – “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust”, 1932
$106.5 million – Christie’s New York , May 2010. Buyer: anonymous

PABLO PICASSO – “Garçon a la pipe”, 1904
$104.1 million – Sotheby’s New York , May 2004. Buyer: anonymous

ANDY WARHOL – “Eight Elvises”, 1963
$100 million – Private sale, 2008. Buyer: anonymous

PABLO PICASSO – “Dora Maar au chat”, 1941
$95.2 million – Sotheby’s New York , May 2006. Buyer: anonymous

TITIAN “Diana and Actaeon”, 1556-1559
$91 million – Private sale, February 2009. Buyer: United Kingdom

Gustav Klimt “Adele Bloch-bauer II “, 1912 – $87.9 million (2006) – Sold only a few months later than Klimt’s first version of Adele.

Mark Rothko: “Orange, Red, Yellow”, 1961 – $86.9 million (2012) – This 1961 painting was the centerpiece of the Pincus Collection, sold at Christie’s on May 8 2012.

Francis Bacon: “Tryptich, 1976”, 1976 – $86.3 million (2008) – Francis Bacon is one of the most sought-after names in the Art market, sold at Sotheby’s.

Vincent van Gogh: “Portrait of Doctor Gachet”, 1890 – $82.5 million (1990) – The story about this famous and brilliant work resumes by itself the “Japanese buyer boom” of the late 80s, and the whereabouts of the painting are now unknown. Some sources places it in Europe , waiting for its return to the Art market

Claude Monet: “Le bassin aux nymphéas”, 1919 – $80.6 million (2008) – This green pictorial symphony was auctioned at Christie’s London, June 2008

Jasper Johns: “False Start”, 1959 – $80 million (2006) – This iconic work by Johns, sold by David Geffen

Andy Warhol: “Turquoise Marilyn”, 1964 – $80 million (2007) – Bought by Mr. Steve Cohen

Pierre Auguste Renoir: “Le moulin de la Galette”, 1876 – $78.1 million (1990) – A victim of the Japanese “buy it and forget it” boom was this masterpiece by Renoir, and sold later in 1997 to a “European private collector” for $50 million

Peter Paul Rubens: “Massacre of the innocents”, 1610/11- $76.7 million (£49.5 million) – Bought by Kenneth Thompson at Sotheby’s London, July 2002. The flamboyant and dramatic work by Rubens.

Mark Rothko: “White center (yellow, pink and lavender on rose)”, 1950 – $72.8 million (2007) – Once in the collection of David Rockefeller, the work was sold at Sotheby’s New York.

Titian: “Diana and Callisto”, 1556-59 – $72 million (2012) – The Duke of Sutherland offered the painting to the United Kingdom for £45 million in 2009.

Andy Warhol: “Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car)”, 1963 – $71.7 million (2007)

Vincent van Gogh: “Portrait of the artiste sans barbe”, 1889- $71.5 million (1998)

Titian: “Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos”, 1533 – $70 million (2004) – buyer, the Getty Museum.

Amedeo Modigliani: “Nude Sitting on a Divan (La Belle Romaine)”, 1917 – $68.9 million (2010) – World auction record for a Modigliani

Thomas Eakins: “The Gross clinic”, 1875 – $68 million (2006) – The picture, previously in the Thomas Jefferson University, was purchased in november 2006 by the National Gallery of Washington and the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, setting a record for a 19th-century American painting.

Andy Warhol: “Men in her life”, 1962 – $63.4 million (2010) – Sold at Phillips de Pury & Company

Willem de Kooning: “Police Gazette “, 1955 – $63 million (2006) – Bought by Steven Cohen.

Paul Cezanne: “Rideau, crouchon et compotier”, 1893/94 – $60.5 million (1999) – World auction record for a Cézanne

Kazimir Malevich: “Suprematist Composition”, 1916 – $60 million (2008) – Once in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, and then it was returned to the artist’s heirs.

Vincent van Gogh: “Wheat field with cypresses”, 1889 – $57 million (1993) – Philanthropist Walter Annenberg lent the work to the Metropolitan Museum..

Pablo Picasso: “Femme aux bras croisés”, 1904 – $55 million (2000)

Vincent van Gogh: “Irises”, 1888 – $53.9 million (1991) – Later resold to the Getty Museum in Malibú, California

Francis Bacon: “Study for Innocent X”, 1962 – $52.7 million (2007) – sold at Sotheby’s New York