10 Most expensive Paintings

Great art usually comes with a high price - and sometimes unbelievably
so. This is a list of the most expensive paintings sold to date. The
prices quoted are inflation adjusted to 2007 US dollars. Prices are in
millions of dollars.

10. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II 89.1m
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Adele Bloch-Bauer II is a 1912 painting by Gustav Klimt. Adele
Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who was a wealthy
industrialist who sponsored the arts and supported Gustav Klimt. Adele
Bloch-Bauer was the only model to be painted twice by Klimt; she also
appeared in the much more famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

9. Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe 90.1m
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
The Self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh are, together with his
sunflowers, some of his most-admired paintings. From 1886 to 1889 he
produced over 12 self-portraits.

8. Dora Maar au Chat 97.0m
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) is a 1941 painting by Pablo
Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, the painter’s Croatian mistress, seated
on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. This painting is
world-famous and is now one of the world’s most expensive paintings.

7. Irises 97.5m
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It was one
of his first works while he was at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole
in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in the last year before his death in
1890.

6. Garçon à la pipe 113.4m
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Owned by the estate of John Hay Whitney, on May 5, 2004 it sold for
$US104.1 million at an auction in Sotheby’s in New York City, after
having been given a pre-sale estimate of $70 million by the auction
house. Many art critics have stated that the painting’s high sale price
has much more to do with the artist’s name than with the merit or
historical importance of the painting.

5. Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre 122.8m
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
At the time of sale, it was one of the top two most expensive artworks
ever sold, together with van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet, which was
also purchased by Saito. Saito caused international outrage when he
suggested in 1991 that he intended to cremate both paintings with him
when he died. However, when Saito and his companies ran into severe
financial difficulties, bankers who held the painting as collateral for
loans arranged a confidential sale through Sotheby’s to an undisclosed
buyer. Although not known for certain, the painting is believed to be
in the hands of a Swiss collector.

4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet 129.7m
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
There are two authentic versions of this portrait, both executed in
June 1890 during the last months of Van Gogh’s life. Both show Doctor
Gachet sitting at a table and leaning his head onto his right arm, but
they are easily differentiated.

3. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 137.6m
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is a painting by Gustav Klimt completed
in 1907. According to press reports it was sold for US$135 million to
Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York City in June 2006, which
would make it at that time the most expensive painting ever sold.

2. Woman III 140.2m
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Woman III is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de
Kooning. Woman III is one of 6 paintings by Kooning in which the
central theme was a woman. It measures 68 by 48 1/2 inches and was
completed in 1953. In November 2006, the painting was sold by David
Geffen to billionare Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million, making it the
second most expensive painting ever sold.

1. No. 5, 1948 $142.7m
Artist: Jackson Pollock
No. 5, 1948 is an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock (January 28,
1912 – August 11, 1956), an American painter known for his
contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. The painting was
done on a 8 x 4 feet sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown
and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance.

taena..

mas mura pa un sa chicklet na tag 25 cents ah..ung bilog na kulay red..ung nakakasuka na kapag madame na nanguya mo..haha

magdradrawing na lang ako..

o kaya kukunan ko sarili ko sa digicam
tapos paparint ko ng malaki..

aun expensive un ahahaha

Mr. Vain 16 wrote:

katsumi wrote:mas mura pa un sa chicklet na tag 25 cents ah..ung bilog na kulay red..ung nakakasuka na kapag madame na nanguya mo..haha

lam ko na ung cnasabi mu.

ung cherry balls.

nakakaadik kea un.

pagkumain ka nun tapos nakatulog ka,

paggising mu united na ang mga buhok mu.

pati ikaw, sa kama.

^^

bakit na-try mo na ba?
nangyare na sau un?

hahahaha

Mr. Vain 16 wrote:

eMCee wrote:magdradrawing na lang ako..

o kaya kukunan ko sarili ko sa digicam
tapos paparint ko ng malaki..

aun expensive un ahahaha

tsk...

tsk...

kasama ba hallucination sa decaf?!

d nman dba?!

^^

totoo un.,.
expensive mga pics ko..
hahaha

@emcee

naks nmn,

expensive, edi pde ng idonate yan s plm??

XD

Mr. Vain 16 wrote:

eMCee wrote:

Mr. Vain 16 wrote:

eMCee wrote:magdradrawing na lang ako..

o kaya kukunan ko sarili ko sa digicam
tapos paparint ko ng malaki..

aun expensive un ahahaha

tsk...

tsk...

kasama ba hallucination sa decaf?!

d nman dba?!

^^

totoo un.,.
expensive mga pics ko..
hahaha

hahaha...

cge na nga.

kwentuhan lang nman weh.

hehehe...

^^

ayaw nla ng kwen2han lng,

gus2 ata nla 22hanan eh..