Ranking is based on the current appraised value of the paintings.
The market capitalization of the paintings included in the Top-50, is $ 5 551.300 million. The average price of one painting is $ 111.026 million.
Top-50 includes only ever sold privately owned paintings. Many canvases in public museums are realy "priceless", as they are not objects of sales and their cost usually correlates only to the cost of insurance, that is constantly growing. According to data published in 2012, the insurance of the painting "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci was defined in $ 765 million.
In early February 2015 the famous Swiss collector Rudolf Staechelin sold one of his collection rarities - painting "When you marry? (Nafea Faa Ipoipo)" by Paul Gauguin. The name of the buyer and the selling price is not disclosed. Under the contract, the picture will be given to the new owner in January 2016. According to experts, the deal amounted to about $ 300 million , and the buyer is probably the emirate of Qatar. Previously, the emirate of Qatar has acquired well-known paintings "The Card Players" by Paul Cezanne for more than $ 250 million, "Child with Dove" by Pablo Picasso for $ 77 million, "White Center" of Mark Rothko over $ 72,8 million.
Below are the 50 most expensive paintings of the world with their current appraised value and the value at the time of the last sale (in parentheses).
Paul Gauguin
When you marry? (Nafea Faa Ipoipo). 1892
$ 300,0 (300,0) million
Paul Cézanne
The Card Players. 1895
$ 274,0 ( 259,0) million
Pablo Picasso
The Dream. 1932
$ 158,5 (155,0) million
Francis Bacon
Three Studies of Lucian Freud. 1969
$ 145,0 (142,4) million
Edvard Munch
The Scream. 1895
$ 124,2 (119,9) million
Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Joseph Roulin. 1889
$ >113,0 (58,0) million
Andy Warhol
Eight Elvises. 1963
$ 109,9 (100,0) million
Andy Warhol
Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster). 1963
$ 107,7 (105,4) million
Peter Paul Rubens
Massacre of the innocents. 1611
$ 101,4 (76,7) million
Vincent van Gogh
A Wheatfield with Cypresses. 1889
$ 94,1 (57,0) million
Andy Warhol
Turquoise Marilyn. 1964
$ 91,6 (80,0) million
Claude Monet
Water Lily Pond. 1919
$ 87,6 (80,5) million
Vincent van Gogh
Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers. 1888
$ 84,2 (39,7) million
Andy Warhol
Green Car Crash. 1963
$ 82,1 (71,7) million
Hans Holbein the Younger
Darmstadt Madonna. 1525
$ 79,0 (75,0) million
Pablo Picasso
Child With a Dove. 1901
$ 78,0 (77,0) million
Pablo Picasso
Au Lapin Agle. 1904
$ 76,9 (40,7) million
Amedeo Modigliani
Reclining Nude on White Pillow. 1917
$ 75,2 (69,0) million
Titian
Diana and Callisto. 1556-1559
$ 74,4 (71,7) million
Jackson Pollock
№5, 1948
$ 165,4 (140,0) million
Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. 1907
$ 158, 4 (135,0) million
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Ball at the Moulin de la Galette. 1876
$ 143,9 (78,1) million
Jasper Johns
Flag. 1954
$ 120,3 (110,0) million
Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar with Cat. 1941
$ 111,9 (95,2) million
Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II. 1912
$ 103,9 (87,9) million
Paul Cézanne
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir. 1904
$ 102,0 (100,0) million
Francis Bacon
Triptych. 1976
$ 94,8 (86,3) million
Pablo Picasso
The Wedding Veil of Pieretta. 1905
$ 93,2 (49,3) million
Titian
Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page. 1533
$ 90,3 (70,0) million
Paul Cézanne
Curtain, Jug and Bowl of Fruit. 1894
$ 86,6 (60,5) million
Mark Rothko
White Center. 1950
$ 83,4 (72,8) million
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Andy Warhol
Triple Elvis [Ferus Type]. 1963
$ 81,9 (81,9) million
Leonardo Da Vinci (?)
Salvator Mundi. 1490-1519
$ 79,2 (75,0) million
Mark Rothko
No 1 (Royal Red and Blue). 1954
$ 77,3 (75,1) million
Pablo Picasso
Woman with Folded Arms. 1902
$ 75,2 (55,0) million
Vincent van Gogh
Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat.1890
$ 70,4 (47,5) million
Willem de Kooning
Woman III, 1953
$ 162,4 (137,5) million
Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet. 1890
$ 152,0 (82,5) million
Pablo Picasso
Boy with a Pipe. 1905
$ 131,1 (104,2) million
Pablo Picasso
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust. 1932
$ 116, 2 (106,5) million
Vincent van Gogh
Irises. 1889
$ 111,2 (53,9) million
Barnett Newman
Anna's Light. 1968
$ 107, 7 (105,7) million
Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait Without Beard. 1886
$ 103, 8 (71,5) million
Jasper Johns
False Start. 1959
$ 94,4 (80,0) million
Pablo Picasso
Yo, Picasso! 1901
$ 92,0 (47,8) million
Mark Rothko
Orange, Red, Yellow. 19611961
$ 90,0 (86,9) million
Barnett Newman
Black Fire I. 1963
$ 84,2 (84,2) million
Francis Bacon
Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards. 1963
$ 81,9 (81,9) million
Titian
Diana and Actaeon. 1556-1559
$ 79,2 (70,6) million
Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic. 1875
$ 78,3 (68,0) million
Pablo Picasso
Acrobat and Young Harlequin. 1905
$ 76,3 (38,5) million
Willem de Koonin
Police Gazette. 1955
$ 74,9 (63,5) million
Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman in a Garden. 1938
$ 70,0 (49,5) million
Continuation of the article. World's most expensive paintings - part 2.
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