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{{Short description|Paintings sold for the highest price}}File:Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, c.1500, oil on walnut, 45.4 × 65.6 cm.jpg|thumb|
Salvator Mundi by Italian artist
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciThis is a list of the highest known
prices paid for
paintings. The record is approximately
US$450.3 million (which includes
commission), paid for
Leonardo da Vinci's
Salvator Mundi ({{Circa|1500}}). The painting was sold in November 2017,NEWS, 'Lost' Leonardo da Vinci to go on display, says National Gallery,
weblinkweblink 2022-01-11, subscription, live, Telegraph, 12 July 2011, {{cbignore}}
Exhibition Guide: Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter at the Court of Milan, 9 November 2011– 5 February 2012 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$100 million on 14 December 1962. Taking
inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US${{Inflation|US|100|1962|r=-1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}}.{{Inflation-fn|US}}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 (£{{Inflation|UK|24.75|1987|r=1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}} 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 (£{{Inflation|US|8.1|1985|r=1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}} 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.William Wilson,
Getty Pays $10.5 Million For Painting,
The New York Times, April 19, 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.{{fact|date=November 2023}}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.Nick Bilton, "
For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches,"
The New York Times, 1/1/12.File:Red vineyards.jpg|thumb|
The Red VineyardThe Red VineyardThe 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,NEWS,weblink 'Lost Caravaggio' rejected by the Louvre may be worth £100m, Brown, Mark, The Guardian, 28 February 2019, 1 March 2019, the painting was estimated to sell for $110 to $170 million.Alex Greenberger, Caravaggio Painting Estimated at $170 M. Sold Privately Ahead of Auction in France, ArtNews, 25 June 2019 The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale.Robin Pogrebin, Mystery Buyer of Work Attributed to Caravaggio Revealed, The New York Times, 27 June 2019 Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. According to some sources, the painting had been sold by Argentinian art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier for $300 million,WEB, 2020-01-18, El enigma detrás del Van Gogh que salió de la Argentina,weblink 2022-08-09, LA NACION, es, but the price was not confirmed by any of the parties involved.WEB, 26 May 2006, Most Expensive Paintings,weblink 2022-08-09, theartwolf, en-US, 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 {{Currency|400|FRF|first=yes}} (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch.WEB,weblink The Red Vineyard Painting at annaboch.com, 5 October 2014, WEB,weblink Anna Boch.com Impressionist, patron of many artists, annaboch.com, 2020-01-27, 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$44.4 million (equivalent to US${{Inflation|US|44.405|2014|r=1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}}).NEWS,weblink The Most Expensive Female Artists 2016 – artnet News, 2016-05-24, artnet News, 2017-11-17, WEB,weblink American Art Auction Results, 16 November 2017, Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings 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.Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985, Modern Art Evening Sale, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 September 2018 Not listed here in this list is Chinese painter Wang Shaofei's The High Sun, which was appraised for $74 million in 2017.WEB,weblink The Chinese Ink Paintings of Wang Shaofei Break the World Record, List of highest prices paid
{{clear}}This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in {{Inflation-year|US}}.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.{| class="wikitable sortable"|
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! ${{Inflation|US|450.3125|2017|r=1}}| $450.3 | Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)>Salvator Mundi | 95px) | | {{circa|1500}} | 2017-11-15}}|1|Dmitry Rybolovlev | Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud{{refn>group=note | Salvator Mundi on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism,HTTPS://WWW.REUTERS.COM/ARTICLE/US-ART-AUCTION-DA-VINCI-ABUDHABI/ABU-DHABI-TO-ACQUIRE-LEONARDO-DA-VINCIS-SALVATOR-MUNDI-CHRISTIES-IDUSKBN1E22IN | WORK=REUTERS | Mohammed bin Salman.KIRKPATRICK | AUTHOR-LINK=DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2019/03/30/ARTS/DESIGN/SALVATOR-MUNDI-LOUVRE-ABU-DHABI.HTML | ACCESS-DATE=31 MARCH 2019, 30 March 2019, }} | Christie's, New YorkHTTPS://WWW.WSJ.COM/ARTICLES/LEONARDO-DA-VINCI-PAINTING-SALVATOR-MUNDI-SELLS-FOR-450-3-MILLION-1510794281 | LAST=CROW | DATE=2017-11-16 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL>ACCESS-DATE=2017-11-16, 0099-9660, |
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! data-sort-value="${{Inflation|US|300|2015|r=0}}"|~${{Inflation|US|300|2015|r=0}}| ~$300 | Interchange (de Kooning)>Interchange | 95px) | | 2015-09}} | 1| David Geffen Foundation| Kenneth C. Griffin | | LAST=KAZAKINA | NEWSPAPER=BLOOMBERG BUSINESS | ACCESS-DATE=FEBRUARY 23, 2016, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|250|2011|r=0}} +| $250 +Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million| The Card Players| 95px) | | 2011-04}}| 1| George Embiricos | Qatar>State of Qatar | 250 M$, a new record for a painting? {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923174219weblink | Stefan Koldehoff, Welt-online: Das Rätsel vom teuersten Bild aller Zeiten, 31 July 2011 (already mentions Qatar as most likely buyer)PEERS | URL=HTTPS://WWW.VANITYFAIR.COM/CULTURE/2012/02/QATAR-BUYS-CEZANNE-CARD-PLAYERS-201202 | WORK=QUATARSALE | ACCESS-DATE=2012-02-03, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|210|2015|r=0}}| $210HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2017/07/03/ARTS/DESIGN/LAWSUIT-REVEALS-GAUGUIN-PAINTING-WAS-NOT-WORLDS-MOST-EXPENSIVE.HTML>TITLE=LAWSUIT REVEALS GAUGUIN PAINTING WAS NOT WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE | FIRST=SOPHIE | THE NEW YORK TIMES>DATE=JULY 3, 2017, July 3, 2017, | When Will You Marry?>Nafea Faa Ipoipo(When Will You Marry?) | 95px) | | 2014-09}}| 2| Rudolf Staechelin heirs| State of Qatar | | LAST1=REYBURN | LAST2=CARVAJAL | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES | ACCESS-DATE=FEBRUARY 5, 2015, |
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! data-sort-value="${{Inflation|US|200|2015|r=0}}"|~${{Inflation|US|200|2015|r=0}}| ~$200| Number 17A| | | 2015-09}} | 4| David Geffen Foundation| Kenneth C. Griffin| Private sale |
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! ${{Inflation|US|183.8|2013|r=1}}| $183.8 | Water Serpents II>Wasserschlangen II | 95px) | | 2013}}| 2| Yves Bouvier| Dmitry Rybolovlev | group=note | Gustav Ucicky (the illegitimate son of Gustav Klimt and one of his models). Ucicky shared half with the heirs of the Jewish family from whom the painting had been seized in 1939. After The Bouvier Affair unfolded, Rybolovlev resold the painting for $170 million in November 2015.HTTPS://WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM/NEWS/ARTICLES/2017-12-21/RUSSIAN-BILLIONAIRE-SEEKS-TO-PULL-SOTHEBY-S-INTO-ART-WORLD-FIGHT | LAST1=BAKER | LAST2=MILLER | DATE=20 DECEMBER 2017 | ACCESS-DATE=11 SEPTEMBER 2018, HTTPS://WWW.FT.COM/CONTENT/0E0F2DE8-F62E-11E7-A4C9-BBDEFA4F210B >ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://GHOSTARCHIVE.ORG/ARCHIVE/20221210/HTTPS://WWW.FT.COM/CONTENT/0E0F2DE8-F62E-11E7-A4C9-BBDEFA4F210B | URL-ACCESS=SUBSCRIPTION | LAST=GERLIS | DATE=12 JAN 2018 | ACCESS-DATE=11 JULY 2018, }} |
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! ${{Inflation|US|186|2014|r=0}}| $186(€140)| No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)| | 2014-08}}| 3 | Christian Moueix>Cherise Moueix| Dmitry Rybolovlev | Yves BouvierHTTPS://WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM/NEWS/ARTICLES/2015-04-27/A-186-MILLION-ROTHKO-PITS-RUSSIAN-TYCOON-AGAINST-ART-MERCHANT | FIRST=STEPHANIE | TITLE=THE BILLIONAIRE, THE DEALER, AND THE $186 MILLION ROTHKO, April 27, 2015, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|180|2015|r=0}}| $180(€160 million)| Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit| 95px) | | 2016-02-01}}Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit by Rembrandt, an exceptionnal acquisition exhibited at the Musée du Louvre, www.louvre.fr| 7| Éric de Rothschild| Rijksmuseumand Louvre| Private saleRembrandt portraits may come home, The New York Times, September 21, 2015 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|179.365|2015|r=1}}| $179.4 | Les Femmes d'Alger("Version O")">Les Femmes d'Alger (Picasso)#Version "O">Les Femmes d'Alger("Version O")| | | 2015-05-11}}| 5| Private collection | Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani{{cn>date=May 2023}} | | DATE=11 MAY 2015 | THE NEW YORK TIMES>ACCESS-DATE=12 MAY 2015 | LAST=REYBURN, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|198|2021|r=1}}| $198(€175)| The Standard Bearer (Rembrandt, 1636)>The Standard Bearer | 95px) | | 2022-02}}| 10| Rothschild family| Rijksmuseum | | LANGUAGE=EN-GB | URL=HTTPS://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/WORLD-EUROPE-59588109 | | DATE=2021-12-09 | URL=HTTPS://NEWS.ARTNET.COM/ART-WORLD/NETHERLANDS-REMBRANDT-STANDARD-BEARER-2046187 | WEBSITE=ARTNET NEWS, en-US, |
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!$195|$195| Shot Marilyns>Shot Sage Blue Marilyn||Andy Warhol|1964 | 2022-05-09}}|11 | Thomas Ammann>Thomas and Doris Ammann|Larry Gagosian | | ACCESS-DATE=2022-05-10 | LANGUAGE=EN, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|170.405|2015|r=1}}| $170.4 | Nu couché| 95px) | | 2015-11-09}}| 9 | Gianni Mattioli>Laura Mattioli Rossi | Liu YiqianHTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2015/11/11/ARTS/INTERNATIONAL/LIU-YIQIAN-MODIGLIANI-NU-COUCHE.HTML | DATE=10 NOVEMBER 2015 | THE NEW YORK TIMES>ACCESS-DATE= 10 NOVEMBER 2015 | LAST=QIN, | | DATE=9 NOVEMBER 2015 | THE NEW YORK TIMES>ACCESS-DATE=9 NOVEMBER 2015 | LAST1=POGREBIN | LAST2=REYBURN, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|140|2006|r=1}}| $140| No. 5, 1948| | 2006-11-02}}| 1| David Geffen | David Martinez (businessman)>David Martinez| Private sale via Sotheby'sCarol Vogel, A Pollock Is Sold, Possibly for a Record Price, The New York Times, November 2, 2006 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|137.5|2006|r=1}}| $137.5| Woman III| | 2006-11-18}}| 2| David Geffen| Steven A. Cohen| Private sale via Larry GagosianCarol Vogel, Landmark De Kooning Crowns Collection, The New York Times, November 18, 2006 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|165.0|2017|r=1}}| $165.0| Masterpiece (Lichtenstein)>Masterpiece| | | 2017-01}}| 12 | Agnes GundHTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2017/02/09/ARTS/CHRISTIES-SOTHEBYS-PHILLIPS-2016-AUCTION-SALES.HTML | LAST=REYBURN | DATE=2017-02-09 | ACCESS-DATE=2017-04-05 | | LAST=POGREBIN | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES | ACCESS-DATE=11 JUNE 2017, | Steven A. CohenROBERT | ACCESS-DATE=2017-06-18 | WEBSITE=CNBC | DATE=12 JUNE 2017, | Private sale |
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! ${{Inflation|US|135|2006|r=1}}| $135| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I| 95px) | | 2006-06-18}}| 1| Maria Altmann | Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie New York>Neue Galerie| Private sale via Christie'sCarol Vogel, Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait, The New York Times, June 19, 2006 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|155|2013|r=1}}| $155| Le Rêve (Picasso)>Le Rêve| | | 2013-03-26}}| 6| Steve Wynn| Steven A. Cohen| Private saleCarol Vogel & Peter Lattman, $616 Million Poorer, Hedge Fund Owner Still Buys Art, The New York Times, March 26, 2013 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|82.5|1990|r=1}}| $82.5| Portrait of Dr. Gachet| 95px) | | 1990-05-15}}| 1| Siegfried Kramarsky heirs | Ryoei Saito{{refn>group=note | Wolfgang Flöttl in 1997 or 1998 for $65–$90 million through Sotheby’s. Before 2007, Flöttl had sold it for $100 million to an unknown buyer.HTTP://WWW.ARTNEWS.COM/2003/11/01/THE-MOST-WANTED-WORKS-OF-ART/ | DATE=NOVEMBER 2003 | | ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014, }}Lee Rosenbaum, "Dr. Gachet" Sighting: It WAS Flöttl!, ArtsJournal, January 26, 2007| Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|157.2|2018|r=1}}| $157.2 | Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)| 95px) | | 2018-05-15}} | | Ezra Nahmad>Ezra and David Nahmad| | Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" at Sotheby's website. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|150|2016|r=1}}| $150| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II| 85px) | | 2016}}| 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 | Larry GagosianTHE GUSTAV KLIMT PAINTING OPRAH REPORTEDLY SOLD FOR $150M HAS QUITE A STORY | NEWSPAPER=THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|142.405|2013|r=1}}| $142.4 | Three Studies of Lucian Freud| | 2013-11-12}}| 8 | group="note" | | LAST=CROW | NEWSPAPER=THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | ACCESS-DATE=14 NOVEMBER 2013, HTTPS://WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/CULTURE/ART/ART-NEWS/10445612/FRANCIS-BACON-TRIPTYCH-SMASHES-ART-AUCTION-RECORD.HTML >ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://GHOSTARCHIVE.ORG/ARCHIVE/20220111/HTTPS://WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/CULTURE/ART/ART-NEWS/10445612/FRANCIS-BACON-TRIPTYCH-SMASHES-ART-AUCTION-RECORD.HTML | URL-ACCESS=SUBSCRIPTION | TITLE=FRANCIS BACON TRIPTYCH SMASHES ART AUCTION RECORD | FIRST=JON | TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP>DATE=13 NOVEMBER 2013 | LOCATION=LONDON, {{cbignore}}}}| Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve WynnCarol Vogel, Buyer of $142.4 Million Bacon Triptych Identified as Elaine Wynn, The New York Times, January 15, 2014 | | LAST=VOGEL | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES | ACCESS-DATE=NOVEMBER 13, 2013, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|78.1|1990|r=1}}| $78.1| Bal du moulin de la GaletteThis is the small version of the painting; the large version is at the Musée d'Orsay.| 95px) | | 1990-05-17}}| 2 | Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney>Betsey Whitney | group=note|Privately resold for ca. $50 million through Sotheby’s in 1997.}}| Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|140.8|2017|r=1}}| $140.8(Â¥931.5)| Twelve Landscape Screens|| Qi Baishi| 1925| 2017-12-17}}||| | | AUTHOR=EILEEN KINSELLA | WORK=ARTNET NEWS, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|104.168|2004|r=1}}| $104.2 | Garçon à la pipe| 95px) | | 2004-05-05}}| 3| Greentree Foundation(Whitney family)| Guido Barilla (suspected)Claire Foy-Smith, Who buys paintings for $104m?, BBC News Online, 6 May 2004| Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Garçon à la pipe" at Sotheby's website. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|149.240|2021|r=1}}| $149.2 | Models (painting)#Les Poseuses>Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) | 95px)| Georges Seurat| 1888 | 2022-11-09}}| 1 | Paul Allen>Paul G. Allen|| Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|119.9225|2012|r=1}}| $119.9 | The ScreamOne of two pastel versions; another two painted versions (and lithography) exist, all created by Munch.| 95px) | | 2012-05-02}}| 8| Petter Olsen| Leon BlackKelly Crow, An Art Mystery Solved: Mogul Is 'Scream' Buyer, The Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2012| Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|120|2013|r=1}}| $120 | Otahi| 95px) | | 2013}}| 10| Yves Bouvier| Dmitry Rybolovlev | group=note | | LAST1=KAZAKINA | LAST2=MILLER | DATE=24 FEBRUARY 2017 | ACCESS-DATE=11 JULY 2018, }} |
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! ${{Inflation|US|118|2012|r=0}}| $118| Nu Couché au coussin Bleu>Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion | 95px) | | 2012}}| 8| Steven A. Cohen| Dmitry Rybolovlev| Private sale via Yves Bouvier |
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! ${{Inflation|US|137.790|2021|r=0}}| $137.7| Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)>La Montagne Sainte-Victoire | 95px) | Paul Cézanne>Paul Cezanne| 1888-90 | 2022-11-09}}| 2 | Paul Allen>Paul G. Allen| | Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|110|2010|r=1}}| $110.0| Flag (painting) | WD=Q107683080}}''This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist.| | | 2010-03}}| 7 | Leo Castelli>Jean-Christophe Castelli| Steven A. Cohen | | FIRST=CAROL | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES, 18 March 2010, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|106.4825|2010|r=1}}| $106.5 | Nude, Green Leaves and Bust| | 2010-05-04}}| 9| Frances Lasker Brody estate | Leonard Blavatnik (suspected)HTTP://WWW.ARTMARKETMONITOR.COM/2016/01/28/WHO-BOUGHT-THE-BRODY-PICASSO-FOR-106M/ | DATE=28 JANUARY 2016, HTTPS://WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK/LUXURY/ART/ART-SALES-RUSSIAN-BUYERS-INJECT-CONFIDENCE-INTO-OLD-MASTER-MARKE/>TITLE=ART SALES: RUSSIAN BUYERS INJECT CONFIDENCE INTO OLD MASTER MARKET | LAST=GLEADELL | DATE=JULY 12, 2016, www.telegraph.co.uk, | Christie's, New YorkPicasso piece sets record for art sold at auction, Reuters, May 5, 2010 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|60|1989|r=1}} | Monet entitled Corona (Water Lilies) from around 1920; Renoir's Reclining Nude of 1902; Wassily Kandinsky>Kandinsky's Autumn Landscape, Murnau from 1908, and Picasso's Striped Bodice from September 1943. | The Roulin Family>Portrait of Joseph Roulin | 95px) | | 1989-08-01}}| 1| Private collection, Zürich| Museum of Modern Art New York| Private sale viaThomas Ammann,Fine Art ZurichKimmelman, Michael: How the MoMA got the Van Gogh, The New York Times, 09 October 1989. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|107.5|2011|r=1}}| $107.5| L’Homme assis au verre| | 2011-05}}| | Yves Bouvier{{refn>group=note|Probably the same day before the sale bought by Yves Bouvier for 62 million.}}| Dmitry Rybolovlev | Yves Bouvier2015-11-12 | LANGUAGE=FR | ACCESS-DATE=2023-08-13 | | DATE=2023-03-15 | URL=HTTPS://WWW.MONACO-TRIBUNE.COM/2023/03/DMITRI-RYBOLOVLEV-POURSUIT-SOTHEBYS-EN-JUSTICE-AUX-ETATS-UNIS-POUR-COMPLICITE-DE-FRAUDE/ | WEBSITE=MONACO TRIBUNE, fr-FR, |
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!$139.3|$139.3|Femme à la montre||Pablo Picasso|1932| 2023-11-09}}||Emily Fisher Landau's estate|Anonymous buyer | Sotheby's, New YorkSMALL | DATE=NOVEMBER 8, 2023 | WORK=THE NEW YORK TIMES | URL-STATUS=LIVE | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://ARCHIVE.TODAY/20231109034219/HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2023/11/08/ARTS/DESIGN/PICASSO-SOTHEBYS-EMILY-FISHER-LANDAU-AUCTION.HTML, November 9, 2023, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|53.9|1987|r=1}}| $53.9| Irises (painting)>Irises | 95px) | | 1987-11-11}}| 1| John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson | Alan Bond (businessman)>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 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|95.216|2006|r=1}}| $95.2 | Dora Maar au Chat| | 2006-05-03}}| 6 | Gerald Gidwitz>Gidwitz family | Boris IvanishviliMarc Spiegler, he Hunt for the Red Collector {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717195945weblink |date=2012-07-17 }}, New York Magazine, 22 August 2006.| Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Dora Maar au Chat" at Sotheby's website. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|100|2008|r=1}}| $100.0| Eight Elvises| | 2008–10}} | 10| Annibale Berlingieri | | WEBSITE=ARCHIVIOSTORICO.CORRIERE.IT, Dan Duray, qatar may have purchased Warhol's 'Eight Elvises', ArtNews 08/07/14| Private sale via Philippe SégalotThe Pop master's highs and lows, The Economist, 26 November 2009. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|115|2018|r=1}}| $115| Young Girl with a Flower Basket| 65px) | | 2018-05-08}} | | David Rockefeller>David and Peggy Rockefeller | | WEBSITE=WWW.THEARTNEWSPAPER.COM | ACCESS-DATE=2020-02-09, | | NEWSPAPER=CNBC, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|105.7|2013|r=1}} +| Japanese yen>Â¥10,300)| Anna's Light| | | 2013-10-04}} | | Dainippon Ink & Chemicals>DIC Corp.| | | ACCESS-DATE=2013-11-18 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20131008145346/HTTP://E.NIKKEI.COM/E/FR/TNKS/NNI20131004D0410A08.HTM | | WEBSITE=MATOME.NAVER.JP, HTTP://WWW.DIC-GLOBAL.COM/EN/RELEASE/PDF/20131004_01.PDF >TITLE=REGARDING EXTRAORDINARY PROFIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SALE OF A CERTAIN PAINTING OWNED BY THE COMPANY AND REVISION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED OPERATING RESULT FORECAST | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20150923214533/HTTP://WWW.DIC-GLOBAL.COM/EN/RELEASE/PDF/20131004_01.PDF | URL-STATUS=DEAD, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|105.445|2013|r=1}}| $105.4 | Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)| | 2013-11-13}} | | | | Sotheby's, New YorkSilver Car Crash auction results at Sotheby's |
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! ${{Inflation|US|110.5|2017|r=1}}| $110.5| Untitled (1982 Basquiat skull painting)>Untitled| | | 2017-05-18}} | | Emily and Jerry SpiegelPOGREBIN | LAST2=REYBURN | DATE=2017-05-17 | LANGUAGE=EN-US | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2017/05/17/ARTS/DESIGN/JEAN-MICHEL-BASQUIAT-SOTHEBYS-AUCTION.HTML | ISSN=0362-4331, | Yusaku MaezawaWhy Spend $110 Million on a Basquiat?, The New York Times, May 26, 2017 | | FIRST1=ROBIN | FIRST2=SCOTT | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES, 18 May 2017, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|71.5|1998|r=1}}| $71.5| Self-Portraits by Vincent van Gogh>Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe | 95px) | | 1998-11-19}}| 5 | Jacques Koerfer|de}} heirs | | Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|110.7|2019|r=1}}| $110.7| Haystacks (Monet series)>Meules | 95px) | | 2019-05-14}}| | | Hasso PlattnerWULLSCHLAGER | DATE=AUGUST 22, 2020 | WORK=THE FINANCIAL TIMES | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://GHOSTARCHIVE.ORG/ARCHIVE/20221210/HTTPS://WWW.FT.COM/CONTENT/AB933D77-A6A0-4471-95DA-F14A6766D1AE | URL-ACCESS=SUBSCRIPTION, August 22, 2020, | Sotheby's, New YorkScott Reyburn, A Monet Sells for $110.7 Million, an Auction High for an Impressionist Work, The New York Times, May 14, 2019. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|117.180|2021|r=1}}| $117.1| Orchard with Cypresses>Verger avec cyprès | 95px)| Vincent van Gogh| 1888 | 2022-11-09}}| 3 | Paul Allen >Paul G. Allen| |Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|100|2013|r=0}}| $100| La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir| 95px) | | 2013}}Exact date of sale is not known. | | Edsel and Eleanor Ford House | | AUTHOR=MARK STRYKER, DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER | WORK=DETROIT FREE PRESS, | | AUTHOR=MARK STRYKER, DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER | WORK=DETROIT FREE PRESS, HTTP://NEWS.ARTNET.COM/IN-BRIEF/SECRET-100-MILLION-CEZANNE-SALE-IN-DETROIT-204252>TITLE=SECRET $100 MILLION CéZANNE SALE IN DETROIT – ARTNET NEWS | DATE=19 DECEMBER 2014, artnet News, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|76.69570218|2002|r=1}}| Pound Sterling>£49.5) | Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)>Massacre of the Innocents | 95px) | | 2002-07-10}}| 6| an Austrian family | Kenneth Thomson{{refn>group=note | Art Gallery of Ontario{{citation >url=http://www.ago.net/transformation/new-art-collector.cfm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008011920weblink | access-date=2013-09-02}}}}| Sotheby's, London |
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! ${{Inflation|US|95.365|2015|r=1}}| $95.4 | Nurse (Lichtenstein)>Nurse| | | 2015-11-09}} | || | Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|86.281|2008|r=1}}| $86.3 | Triptych, 1976| | 2008-05-14}} | | Jean-Pierre Moueix heirsWINE SPECTATOR ONLINE: UNFILTERED | URL = HTTP://WWW.WINESPECTATOR.COM/WINE/FEATURES/0,1197,4396,00.HTML | ACCESS-DATE = 7 FEBRUARY 2010 | ARCHIVE-DATE = 23 JANUARY 2009, dead, | Roman AbramovichCristina Ruiz and Sarah Thornton Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925173217weblink |date=2013-09-25 }}, The Art Newspaper, 1 June 2008| Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Triptych, 1976" at Sotheby's website. |
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!${{Inflation|US|105.7|2021|r=1}}|$105.7|Maternitè II| 95px)|Paul Gauguin|1899 | 2022-11-09}}|4 | Paul Allen>Paul G. Allen||Christie's, New York |
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!${{Inflation|US|104.5|2021|r=1}}|$104.5|Birch Forest| 95px) | | 2022-11-09}}|5 | Paul Allen>Paul G. Allen||Christie's, New York |
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!${{Inflation|US|103.4|2021|r=1}}|$103.4|Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)||Pablo Picasso|1932| 2021-05-13}}||| | | ACCESS-DATE=2022-01-24 | LANGUAGE=EN, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|49.32|1989|r=1}}| French franc>F300)| Les Noces de Pierrette | 95px) | | 1989-11-30}}| 3 | Fredrik Roos|sv}}Judd Tully, Auction; `Blue' Picasso Breaks Record at $51.7 Million, The Washington Post, Dec 1, 1989| Tomonori Tsurumaki| Binoche et Godeau Paris |
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! ${{Inflation|US|80|2006|r=1}}| $80.0| False Start (painting) | de|False Start}}''| | | 2006-10-12}}| 11| David Geffen| Kenneth C. Griffin| Private sale via Richard GrayCarol Vogel, Works by Johns and de Kooning Sell for $143.5 Million, The New York Times, October 12, 2006 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|85|2008|r=1}}| $85(€54) | Te Fare| 95px) | | 2008-06}} | | Yves Bouvier| Dmitry Rybolovlev | group=note | | LAST=KAZAKINA | DATE=28 FEBRUARY 2017 | ACCESS-DATE=11 JULY 2018, }} |
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! ${{Inflation|US|57|1993|r=1}}| $57| A Wheatfield with Cypresses| 95px) | | 1993-05}}| 6| Emil Georg Bührle's son| Walter H. AnnenbergAnnenberg subsequently donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.| Private sale via Steven Mazoh |
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!${{Inflation|US|100|2019|r=1}}|$100|Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump| | Peter BrantJOHNSON | DATE=JULY 25, 2020 | WORK=CHICAGO TRIBUNE | ACCESS-DATE=2020-09-30, | Kenneth C. Griffin>Ken GriffinKAZAKINA>FIRST=KATYA | TITLE=KEN GRIFFIN BUYS BASQUIAT PAINTING FOR MORE THAN $100 MILLION | ACCESS-DATE=2020-09-30, Bloomberg, |Private sale |
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! ${{Inflation|US|47.85|1989|r=1}}| $47.8 | Yo, Picasso| 95px) | | 1989-05-09}}| 2| Wendell Cherry| Stavros Niarchos| Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|80|2007|r=1}}| $80.0 | Shot Marilyns>Turquoise Marilyn| | | 2007-05-20}} | | Stefan Edlis| Steven A. Cohen| Private sale via Larry GagosianCarol Vogel, Inside Art: Buying a Warhol 'Marilyn', The New York Times, 25 May 2007 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70|2003|r=1}}| $70.0| Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page| 95px)| Titian| 1533 | 2003–11}}| 10| AXA insurance company| Getty Museum | The Getty secures masterpiece portrait by Titian {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622112055weblink |date=2013-06-22 }}, a November 24, 2003 press release by the Getty MuseumWill Bennett, The $70 million soldier, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2004 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|86.8825|2012|r=1}}| $86.9 | Orange, Red, Yellow| | 2012-05-08}} | | David Pincus estate| | Christie's, New YorkMark Rothko painting sets post-war auction record, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2012 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|80.549389|2008|r=1}}| $80.5(£40.9) | Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas>Le Bassin aux Nymphéas | 95px) | | 2008-06-24}} | | J. Irwin Miller>J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller | Andrey Melnichenko (industrialist)>Andrey MelnichenkoNEUENDORF >FIRST=HENRI | TITLE=THE IMPRESSIONIST PIONEER VS. THE POSTMODERN MASTER: TWO $30 MILLION PAINTINGS WILL DUEL AT CHRISTIE'S AND SOTHEBY'S THIS FALL | ACCESS-DATE=2023-08-13 | LANGUAGE=EN-US, | Christie's, LondonLot description and auction details of "Le bassin aux nymphéas" at Christie's website |
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!$108.4|$108.4(£85.3) | Lady with a Fan (Klimt)>Lady with a Fan | frameless|125x125px) | | 2023-06-27}}|| | Patti Wong, on behalf of a Hong Kong buyerBADSHAH | DATE=2023-06-27 | LANGUAGE=EN-GB | URL=HTTPS://WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM/ARTANDDESIGN/2023/JUN/27/GUSTAV-KLIMTS-LADY-WITH-A-FAN-SELLS-FOR-853M-BREAKING-EUROPEAN-RECORD | ISSN=0261-3077, |Sotheby's.LondonCite web |date=28 June 2023 |title=Gustav Klimt- Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-contemporary-evening-auction-2/dame-mit-faecher-lady-with-a-fan?locale=en |access-date=28 June 2023 |website=Sotheby's |
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! ${{Inflation|US|91.9|2018|r=1}}| $91.9| Chop Suey (painting)>Chop Suey| | | 2018-11-13}} | | Barney A. Ebsworth estate|| Christie's, New YorkScott Reyburn, Hopper Painting Sells for Record $91.9 Million at Christie’s, The New York Times, November 13, 2018 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|60.5|1999|r=1}}| $60.5| Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier| 95px) | | 1999-05-10}}| 9 | John Hay Whitney>Whitney Family {{refn | Steve Wynn, who bid on the painting at auction, privately acquired the work several months later from the unidentified buyer for an undisclosed, supposedly lower price. Kenneth Griffin acquired it in 2004 from Wynn.HTTP://WWW.ARTNEWS.COM/2005/10/11/COHEN-BUYS-TWO-WORKS-FROM-WYNN-IN-120M-DEAL/>TITLE=ARTNEWS: COHEN BUYS TWO WORKS FROM WYNN IN $120M DEAL | ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014, }}| | Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|90.3|2018|r=1}}| $90.3| Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)| | 2018-11-15}} | ||| Christie's, New YorkScott Reyburn and Robin Pogrebin, David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist, The New York Times, November 15, 2018 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|84.165|2014|r=1}}| $84.2| Black Fire I| | 2014-05-13}} | | Private Collection| Anonymous | | ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|72.84|2007|r=1}}| $72.8| White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)>White Center (Yellow, Pinkand Lavender on Rose)| | | 2007-05-15}} | | David Rockefeller, Sr. | Hamad bin Khalifa>Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-ThaniTHORNTON > FIRST1 = SARAH | FIRST2 = GEORGINA | NEWSPAPER = THE ART NEWSPAPER | URL = HTTP://WWW.THEARTNEWSPAPER.COM/ARTICLE.ASP?ID=7946 | ARCHIVE-DATE = AUGUST 20, 2009 | URL-STATUS = DEAD, | Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "White Center" at Sotheby's website. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|39.67425|1987|r=1}}| $39.7(£24.75)| Sunflowers (series of paintings)>Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | 95px) | | 1987-03-30}}| 1| Helen Beatty,daughter-in-law ofChester Beatty | Meiji Yasuda Life>Yasuda Comp./Sompo HoldingsHTTPS://WWW.MSN.COM/EN-US/NEWS/WORLD/THE-HEIRS-OF-A-JEWISH-BANKER-ARE-TAKING-A-JAPANESE-COMPANY-TO-COURT-OVER-AN-ALLEGEDLY-NAZI-LOOTED-VAN-GOGH/AR-AA15SVIM>TITLE=THE HEIRS OF A JEWISH BANKER ARE TAKING A JAPANESE COMPANY TO COURT OVER AN ALLEGEDLY NAZI-LOOTED VAN GOGH, MSN, | Christie's, London |
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! ${{Inflation|US|88.8|2019|r=1}}| $88.8|Buffalo II| | 2019-05-15}} | | Robert and Beatrice Mayer Estate | Alice WaltonHTTPS://WWW.ARTNEWS.COM/ART-NEWS/MARKET/ALICE-WALTON-RAUSCHENBERG-CHRISTIES-12699/ | LAST=DURóN | DATE=2019-06-04 | LANGUAGE=EN-US, 2020-02-09, | | WEBSITE=WWW.CHRISTIES.COM | ACCESS-DATE=2020-02-09, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|81.925|2014|r=1}}| $81.9| Triple Elvis| | 2014-11-12}} | | WestSpiel|de}}Carol Vogel, A Warhol Leads a Night of Soaring Prices at Christie’s, The New York Times, Nov 13, 2014|| Christie's, New YorkAndy Warhol's "Triple Elvis" auction results at Christie's |
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! ${{Inflation|US|71.72|2007|r=1}}| $71.7| Green Car Crash>Green Car Crash(Green Burning Car I)| | | 2007-05-16}} | | Private collection, Zürich| Philip Niarchos| Christie's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Green Car Crash" at Christie's website |
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! ${{Inflation|US|81.925|2015|r=1}}| $81.9| No. 10 (Rothko)>No. 10| | | 2015-05-13}} | || | | DATE=MAY 14, 2015 | | WEBSITE=WWW.CHRISTIES.COM, |
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!${{Inflation|index=US|value=93.1|start_year=2021|r=1}}|$93.1|In This Case| | 2021-05-11}}||Giancarlo Giammetti|Private collector | | URL=HTTPS://WWW.CHRISTIES.COM/FEATURES/21ST-CENTURY-EVENING-SALE-RESULTS-MAY-2021-11659-3.ASPX | WEBSITE=CHRISTIE'S, en, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|85.8125|2018|r=1}}| $85.8 | Suprematist Composition| 95px) | | 2018-05-15}} | | The Nahmad family| Anonymous | group=note | US | 2008}} million in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) from the heirs of Kazimir Malevich.Nate Freeman, A Malevich Suprematist Composition sold for $85.8 million at Christie’s, breaking the record for a work of Russian art., at ArtNet, 15 May 2018description and auction details of "Suprematist Composition" at Christie's website.Lot description and 2008 auction details of "Suprematist Composition" at Sotheby's website.}} |
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! ${{Inflation|US|80.805|2014|r=1}}| $80.8 | Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards| | 2014-05-13}} | | Private Collection| Anonymous| Christie's, New York. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|92.2|2021|r=1}}| $92.2| Portrait of a Young Man holding a Medallion>Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel | 95px)|Sandro Botticelli | {{circa|1480}} | 2021-01-21}}||Sheldon Solow estate | Russian Federation>Russian private collector | | DATE=2021-01-28 | LANGUAGE=EN-US | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2021/01/28/ARTS/DESIGN/SANDRO-BOTTICELLI-PAINTING-SOTHEBYS.HTML | ARCHIVE-DATE=2021-12-28 | ACCESS-DATE=2021-01-28, 0362-4331, {{cbignore}} |
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! ${{Inflation|US|81.4475|2016|r=1}}| $81.4 | Haystacks (Monet series)>Meule | 95px) | | 2016-11-16}} | || | Christie's, New YorkClaude Monet's "Meule" at Christie's website |
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! ${{Inflation|US|84.6875|2018|r=1}} | $84.7 | Nymphéas en fleur| 95px) | | 2018-05-08}} | | David Rockefeller>David and Peggy Rockefeller | | website=TheValue.com | access-date=2020-02-09}} | | URL=HTTPS://WWW.CHRISTIES.COM/LOTFINDER/PAINTINGS/CLAUDE-MONET-NYMPHEAS-EN-FLEUR-6134208-DETAILS.ASPX, www.christies.com, |
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! data-sort-value=${{Inflation|US|75|2011|r=0}}|~${{Inflation|US|75|2011|r=0}}| ~$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 | 95px) | | 2011-07-12}} | | Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse| Reinhold Würth | Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502102155weblink |date=2013-05-02 }}, The Art Newspaper, July 15, 2011 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|81.3125|2017|r=1}}| $81.3 | Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series)>Laboureur dans un champ | 95px) | | 2017-11-13}} | | Perry Richardson Bass>Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass estate | | Christie's, New YorkVincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Laboureur dans un champ at Christie's website |
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! ${{Inflation|US|84.550|2019|r=1}}| $84.55 | Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus| | 2020-06-30}} | | Hans Rasmus Astrup (born 1939)>Hans Rasmus Astrup| | Sotheby's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus" at Sotheby's website. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70.625|2009|r=1}}| $70.6(£50)| Diana and Actaeon (Titian)>Diana and Actaeon|(File:Titian - Diana and Actaeon - 1556-1559.jpg|95px)| Titian| 1556–1559 | 2009-02-01}} | | Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland>Duke of Sutherland| National Galleries of Scotland& National Gallery, London| Private saleFarah Nayeri, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Bloomberg, February 2, 2009Mike Wade, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, The Sunday Times, 2 February 2009Funds secured for Titian painting, BBC News, 2 February 2009 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|40.7|1989|r=1}}| $40.7| Au Lapin Agile| 95px) | | 1989-11-27}}| 5| Linda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Whitney Payson| Walter H. Annenberg| Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|68|2007|r=1}}| $68| The Gross Clinic| 95px) | | 2007-04-12}} | | Thomas Jefferson University| Philadelphia Museum of Art| Private saleSalisbury, Stephan (November 14, 2006), A divisive deal, The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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! ${{Inflation|US|75.1225|2012|r=1}}| $75.1 | No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)| | 2012-11-13}} | | John L. Marion>John and Anne Marion| | | DATE=NOVEMBER 2012 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20150924131008/HTTP://WWW.SOTHEBYS.COM/EN/AUCTIONS/ECATALOGUE/2012/CONTEMPORARY-ART-EVENING-AUCTION-N08900/LOT.19.LOTNUM.HTML | URL-STATUS=DEAD, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|38.5396|1988|r=1}}| $38.5(£20.9)| Acrobate et jeune arlequinRe-sold for £12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993. | | 1988-11-28}}| 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 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|80.750|2018|r=1}}| $80.8 | Odalisque couchée aux magnolias| | 2018-05-08}} | | David Rockefeller>David and Peggy Rockefeller| Xin Li-Cohen | | URL=HTTPS://WWW.CHRISTIES.COM/LOTFINDER/PAINTINGS/HENRI-MATISSE-ODALISQUE-COUCHEE-AUX-MAGNOLIAS-6134206-DETAILS.ASPX, www.christies.com, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|55.006|2000|r=1}}| $55.0 | Femme aux Bras Croisés| 95px) | | 2000-11-08}} | | Chauncey McCormick heirs|| Christie's, New YorkLot description and auction details of "Femme aux bras croisés" at Christie's website |
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! ${{Inflation|US|68.9625|2010|r=1}}| $69.0 | Nude Sitting on a Divan| 85px) | | 2010-11-02}} | | Halit CıngıllıogluKelly Crow, Sotheby's Sells $68.9 Million Modigliani, The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2010| | | NU ASSIS SUR UN DIVAN AUCTION DETAILS AT SOTHEBY'S>ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20150924143620/HTTP://WWW.SOTHEBYS.COM/EN/CATALOGUES/ECATALOGUE.HTML/2010/IMPRESSIONIST-MODERN-ART-EVENING-SALE-N08675#/R=/EN/ECAT.FHTML.N08675.HTML+R.M=/EN/ECAT.LOT.N08675.HTML/7/, dead, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|63.5|2006|r=1}}| $63.5| Police Gazette (painting)>Police GazetteHTTP://WWW.TWCDC.COM/BELLAGIO/DEKOONING.HTM >TITLE=WILLEM DE KOONING | ACCESS-DATE=2013-04-30, | | | 2006-10-12}} | | David Geffen| Steven A. Cohen| Private sale via Richard Gray. |
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! ${{Inflation|US|85|2021|r=1}}| $85| Untitled (Devil)>Untitled| | | 2022-05-18}}|| Yusaku Maezawa| Taiwanese collector | | DATE=2022-05-19 | LANGUAGE=EN-US | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2022/05/18/ARTS/DESIGN/BASQUIAT-PHILLIPS-CONTEMPORARY-SALE.HTML | ISSN=0362-4331, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|71.7|2012|r=1}}| $71.7(£45)| Diana and Callisto| 95px)| Titian| 1556–1559 | 2012-03-02}} | | Duke of Sutherland| National Galleries of Scotland& National Gallery, London | | TITLE=TITIAN MASTERPIECE DIANA AND CALLISTO SAVED FOR NATION | ACCESS-DATE=2012-03-01, |
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!${{Inflation|US|82.5|2021|r=1}}|$82.5|No. 7||Mark Rothko|1951| 2023-02-19}}||Private Collection|Laurence Escalante|Private sale |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70.53|2015|r=1}}| $70.5| Untitled (New York City)| | 2015-11-11}} | | Sydney M. Irmas heirs| | | FIRST1=ROBIN | FIRST2=SCOTT | NEWSPAPER=THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12 November 2015, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|77|2020|r=1}}| $77(Â¥512.9)| Ten Views Of Lingbi Rock | åé¢çµç’§å›¾å·}}''HTTPS://WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM/NEWS/ARTICLES/2020-10-23/MING-DYNASTY-SCROLL-SELLS-FOR-RECORD-77-MILLION-AT-AUCTION>TITLE=MING DYNASTY SCROLL SELLS FOR RECORD $77 MILLION AT AUCTION | LAST=MARLOW | DATE=OCTOBER 23, 2020, | 95px) | Wu Bin (painter)>Wu Bin| 1610 | 2020-10-20}} | | William Bernard Ziff Jr. heirs|| Beijing Poly Auction |
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! ${{Inflation|US|49.5025|1999|r=1}}| $49.5| Femme assise dans un jardin| | 1999-11-10}} | | group=note|Son of Daniel (conductor & cellist) and Eleanore Saidenberg who were Picasso's New York dealers from 1955 to 1973.Andrew Decker, Saidenberg Coup, at artnet.com}}Carter B. Horsley, The Collection of Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg|| Sotheby's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70.182|2014|r=1}}| $70.2(£42.2)| Portrait of George Dyer Talking| | 2014-02-13}} | ||| Christie's, LondonFrancis Bacon (1909–1992) Portrait of George Dyer Talking at Christie's websiteCarol Vogel, Francis Bacon Work Sells for $70 Million at Christie’s Auction, The New York Times, February 13, 2014 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|47.5|1997|r=1}}| $47.5| Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat| 95px) | | 1997}}| 11| | group=note | The New York Times reported that Steven Cohen bought van Gogh's "Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat" and Paul Gauguin>Gauguin's "(:File:Paul Gauguin - A Walk by the Sea or Tahitian Family 1902.jpg | | ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014 | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20160303234749/HTTP://WWW.SGALLERY.NET/NEWS/10_2005/07.PHP, dead, though guesses range from $100–150 million. One or both of the paintings may thus occur higher on this list.}}| Private sale viaAcquavella Galleries Inc.,New YorkCarol Vogel, A Gauguin and a van Gogh Change Hands, The New York Times, Oct 7, 2005 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|69.605|2014|r=1}}| $69.6| Untitled (1970 painting) | de|Untitled, 1970}}''| | | 2014-11-12}} | | Nicola del Roscio|| Christie's, New YorkCy Twombly's Untitled auction results at Christie's |
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! ${{Inflation|US|69.605|2014|r=1}}| $69.6| Four Marlons| | 2014-11-12}} | | WestSpiel|| Christie's, New YorkAndy Warhol's "Four Marlons" auction results at Christie's |
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! ${{Inflation|US|79.45|2021|r=1}}| $79.45 | The Empire of Lights| | 2022-02-03}} | | Anne-Marie Crowet Gillon heirs| | | FIRST1=ANGELICA | DATE=2 MARCH 2022, www.artnews.com, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|65.48445|2011|r=1}}| $65.5(Â¥425.5)| Eagle Standing on Pine TreeHTTPS://WWW.BBC.CO.UK/NEWS/WORLD-ASIA-PACIFIC-13501773 | WORK=BBC NEWS | DATE=MAY 23, 2011, | 95px)| Qi Baishi| 1946 | 2011-05-22}} | | Liu Yiqian | | ACCESS-DATE=5 OCTOBER 2014, | China Guardian Auctions |
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! ${{Inflation|US|63.3625|2010|r=1}}| $63.4 | Men in Her Life (Painting)>Men in Her Life| | | 2010-11-08}} | | Jose Mugrabi | | AUTHOR=CHRISTIE CHU | WORK=ARTNET NEWS, |Phillips de Pury & CompanyCarol Vogel, Auction Records Fall at Phillips’s Sale of Contemporary Masters, NY Times, November 10, 2010 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70.0625|2017|r=1}}| $70.1 | Contraste de formes| | 2017-11-13}} | | Anna-Maria Kellen | de | Stephen M. Kellen | de|}} Foundation| | | WEBSITE=CHRISTIE'S | ACCESS-DATE=2017-11-21, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|67.45|2015|r=1}}| $67.45| La Gommeuse| 85px) | | 2015-11-05}} | | William I. Koch| | LA GOMMEUSE | PUBLISHER=SOTHEBY'S, POGREBIN>FIRST1=ROBIN | URL=HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2015/11/06/ARTS/DESIGN/WARMER-RESPONSE-AT-SOTHEBYS-2ND-NIGHT-OF-AUCTIONS.HTML | THE NEW YORK TIMES>DATE=6 NOVEMBER 2015, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|67.365|2015|r=1}}| $67.4 | Buste de femme(Femme à la résille)| | 2015-05-11}} | | Steve Wynn | Joseph LauHTTPS://WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM/NEWS/ARTICLES/2015-11-12/HONG-KONG-BILLIONAIRE-JOSEPH-LAU-SETS-TWO-RECORDS-IN-24-HOURS | FIRST=FREDERIK | NEWSPAPER=BLOOMBERG BUSINESS | ACCESS-DATE=DECEMBER 16, 2015, | Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|35.2|1989|r=1}}| $35.2| (:File:Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Florentine) - Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) - Google Art Project.jpg>Portrait of a Halberdier) | 95px)| Pontormo| 1537 | 1989-05-31}}| 5| Chauncey Stillman| Getty Museum| Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|66.33|2015|r=1}}| $66.3 | Les Alyscamps>L’Allée des Alyscamps | 95px) | | 2015-05-05}} | || | Sotheby's, New YorkBrian Boucher, Led by $66M Van Gogh, Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Sale Robustly Kicks Off Season, Artnet, May 5, 2015 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|66.245|2014|r=1}}| $66.2 | Untitled (Rothko)>Untitled| | | 2014-05-13}} | | Private Collection| Anonymous| Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|66.3275|2016|r=1}}| $66.3| Untitled XXV| | 2016-11-15}} | || | | WEBSITE=CHRISTIE'S, 2017-11-21, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|62.1299|2011|r=1}}| $62.1(Â¥402.5)| Zhichuan ResettlementHTTP://WWW.CHINA.ORG.CN/BUSINESS/2011-06/05/CONTENT_22719343.HTM | AUTHOR=å´å—岚, 5 October 2014, | 65px) | Wang Meng (painter)>Wang Meng| 1350 | 2011-06-04}} | ||| Beijing Poly Auction |
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! ${{Inflation|US|69.2|2018|r=1}}| $69.2| Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)| | 2018-02-28}}|| Private collection| Harry Smith | | DATE=2018-02-28 | ACCESS-DATE=2020-02-09, HTTPS://WWW.SOTHEBYS.COM/EN/AUCTIONS/ECATALOGUE/2018/IMPRESSIONIST-MODERN-ART-EVENING-SALE-L18002/LOT.7.HTML>TITLE=PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION – PABLO PICASSO – FEMME AU BéRET ET À LA ROBE QUADRILLéE (MARIE-THéRèSE WALTER) | URL-STATUS=DEAD | ARCHIVE-DATE=2018-03-01, 2020-02-09, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|65.125|2014|r=1}}| $65.1| Spring (Édouard Manet painting)>Spring | 95px) | | 2014-11-05}} | | Oliver Hazard Payne heirsJeanne (Spring) at the J. Paul Getty Museum website| Getty Museum| Christie's, New YorkCraig Nakano, Getty breaks record with $65.1-million purchase of Manet's 'Spring', LA Times, November 5, 2014 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|68.9|2018|r=1}}| $68.9| Woman as Landscape| | 2018-11-13}} | | Barney A. Ebsworth estate|| Christie's, New York |
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! ${{Inflation|US|61.6825|2011|r=1}}| $61.7| {{illm>1949-A-No. 1|de}}| | | 2011-11-09}} | | City and County of Denver|| Sotheby's, New YorkCarol Vogel, As Stocks Fall, Art Surges at a $315.8 Million Sale, NY Times, November 9, 2011 |
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! ${{Inflation|US|71.35|2021|r=1}}| $71.4 | Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès| 95px) | | 2021-11-11}}|| Edwin L. Cox| | | ACCESS-DATE=2021-11-12 | LANGUAGE=EN, |
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! ${{Inflation|US|70.35|2021|r=1}}| $70.35| Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (1917-19)| 95px)| Claude Monet| 1917-19 | 2021-05-12}} | | Private Collection, New York, United States|| Sotheby's, New YorkClaude Monet's "Le Bassin aux nymphéas" auction results at Sotheby's |
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{{Graph:Most Expensive Paintings}}Progression of highest prices paid
{{clear}}This list shows the progression of the highest price paid for a painting since 1746.{| class="wikitable sortable"|
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| $0.03 million|Magdalen in the Desert| 95px) | | 1746}}||Augustus III of Poland| Private sale |
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| $0.04 million (110,000 French francs)|Sistine Madonna| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1513–1514 | 1759}}|Piacenza|Augustus III of Poland| Private sale |
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| $0.08 million (£16,000)|Adoration of the Mystic Lamb| 95px) | | 1821}}|Edward Solly|Frederick William III of Prussia| Private sale |
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| $0.12 million (615,300 French francs)|The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1678 | 1852}}|Jean-de-Dieu Soult|Louvre, Paris | | LAST=GONZáLEZ | PUBLISHER=MUSEO DEL PRADO | TRANS-TITLE=IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE VENERABLES OR «DE SOULT», LA [MURILLO], 5 March 2024, |
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| $0.35 million (£70,000)|Ansidei Madonna| 95px) | | 1505–1507 | 1885}}|George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough|National Gallery, London | | AUTHOR=RUSKIN, J | PUBLISHER=MACMILLAN & COMPANY | PAGES=111–112,weblink |
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| $0.5 million|Colonna Altarpiece| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1503-1505 | 1901}}|Charles Sedelmeyer|J. P. Morgan| Private sale |
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| $0.51 million|Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1623 | 1906}}|Knoedler|Peter Arrell Browne Widener| Private sale |
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| $0.51 million| The Mill (Rembrandt)>The Mill | 95px) | | 1645/48 | 1911}}|Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne|Peter Arrell Browne Widener| Private sale |
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| $0.6 million|Small Cowper Madonna| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1504–1505 | 1913}}|Joseph Joel Duveen|Peter Arrell Browne Widener| Private sale |
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| $1.6 million|Benois Madonna| 95px) | | {{circa}} 1478–1480 | 1914}}|Benois family|Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia| Private sale |
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| $2 million| Study of a Young Woman| 95px) | | c. 1665-1667 | 1959}} | House of Arenberg>Prince d'Arenberg| Charles Wrightsman| Private sale |
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| $2.3 million| Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer| 95px) | | 1961-11-15}}| Estate of Mrs Alfred Erickson| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | Parke-Bernet, New YorkHTTPS://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 | LAST=KNOX | DATE=NOVEMBER 16, 1961 | THE NEW YORK TIMES>PAGE=1, March 5, 2024, |
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| $5-$6 million| Ginevra de' Benci | 95px) | | {{circa|1474–1478}} | 1967-02}}| Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein| National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.| Private sale |
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| $5.5 million (£2.3 million)| Portrait of Juan de Pareja| 95px) | | {{circa|1650}} | 1970-11-27}}| Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | | LAST=GOSLING | DATE=2013-12-01 | THE GUARDIAN>ACCESS-DATE=2024-03-05 | ISSN=0261-3077, GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS>LAST1=MCWHIRTER | LAST2=MCWHIRTER | PUBLISHER=STERLING PUBLISHING CO., INC. | ISBN=0-8069-0004-0 | URL=HTTPS://ARCHIVE.ORG/DETAILS/GUINNESSBOOKOFWO0000UNSE_E7S5/PAGE/176/MODE/2UP?VIEW=THEATER | VIA=INTERNET ARCHIVE, |
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| $6.4 million| Juliet and Her Nurse| | 1980-05-30}}| Trustees of Whitney Museum| Anonymous | Sotheby Parke Bernet, New YorkGUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS | FIRST1=NORRIS | BANTAM BOOKS>YEAR=1982 | PAGES=202-203 | ACCESS-DATE=MARCH 5, 2024, Internet Archive, |
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| $10.0 million (£7.47 million)| Seascape: Folkestone| | {{circa|1845}} | 1984-07-05}}| Estate of Kenneth Clark| Unknown | Sotheby's, LondonTHE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS 1987 | FIRST1=ALAN | YEAR=1986 | PAGE=80 | ACCESS-DATE=MARCH 6, 2024 | INTERNET ARCHIVE, THE TIMES | PAGE=1 | FIRST=GERALDINE | THE WASHINGTON POST | PAGE=1 | FIRST=MARY | URL=HTTPS://WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/ARCHIVE/POLITICS/1984/07/06/TURNER-PAINTING-SOLD-FOR-RECORD-10-MILLION/1CD11189-EF24-4359-8C16-7D0DFBA38EA6/, March 6, 2024, |
