10. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) – $105.4 million
This artistic work done by the most popular legend of pop art named as Andy Warhol in 1963 and was sold for $105.4 million at an auction in November, 2013.
9. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust – $106.5 million
This expensive painting was purchased by an unknown purchaser at an auction in May, 2012 for a worth of $106.5 million. It is a colorful and sensual artwork done by Pablo Picasso in 1932. This oil painting has a vigorous plum and blue color and it depicts the muse and mistress of Picasso called Marie Therese Walter.
8. Flag – $110 million
Flag is a hot wax painting by the living American artist Jasper Johns. This sort of work is known as the most famous work of this artist. It was sold to Steven Cohen via a private sale in 2010 and its selling price was $110 million. He accomplished his first American flag painting in 1954-1955 and he is really renowned for it.
7. The Scream – $119.9 million
This expensive painting ‘The Scream’ is the most vibrant masterpiece of Edward Munch who was an expressionist artist and was sold at an auction in 2012. There are four variants to this painting that was collectively designated the famous name “The Scream of Nature”, designed as both pastels and paintings. This painting depicts a sketch that has expressions of pain and misery and is a symbol of contemporary art.
6. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – $135 million
This amazing painting is an emblematic work which was sold to Ronald Lauder in 2006 for $135 million. This painting is a Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the rich Australian industrialist Ferdinand Block-Bauer’s wife by artist Gustav Klimt in 1907. This work has been known as the most full and final representation of his golden phase. This painting shock the world of art not only by the tremendous amount paid for it but also the mean it was sold.
5. Woman III – $137.5 million
Woman III is an abstract expressionist painting painted by artist Willem de Kooning in 1953. It is one of the sequences of six paintings with the women as the central idea. This painting stayed as a part of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from late 70s to 1994 but in 1979 after the Islamic resolution, this painting could not be displayed due to ban on this sort of artwork that depicts a rough model of a woman. It was purchased by a billionaire Steven Cohen for $137.5 million in 2006.
4. No. 5, 1948 – $140 million
This stunning and expensive contemporary artwork accomplished by an American painter Jackson Pollock in 1948. He is renowned for his improvement to the abstract expressionism which is an American art movement. This painting depicts a nest like appearance with the help of thick amounts of yellow and brown paint sprinkled on the top of sheet of fiberboard. It was bought by an unknown buyer in 2006 for an amount of $140 million.
3. Three Studies of Lucian Freud – $142 million
It is oil on canvas sort of artwork divided in three sections that was accomplished by a British painter Francis Bacon in 1969, portraying artist Lucian Freud. Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a modern work of art which shows the Freud sitting on a wooden chair with an orange background. It was sold to an unnamed client for $ 142.4 million in November 2013.
2. Le Reve -$155 million
Le Reve is oil on canvas sort of painting done by Pablo Picasso, in 1932. It is his one of the most erotic and popular painting and a portrait of his admirer Marie-Therese Walter who was 22 years old and shows her sitting on an armchair with closed eyes. This painting is of the period when he portrayed serpentine sketches with distinct colors and simplistic outlines that give an image of early Fauvism. Casino holder Steve Wynn decided to sell this painting to an artwork collector Steven Cohen in 2006, but this deal was cancelled due to the accidental damage to the portrait by Steve Wynn. Because of the great interest of Cohen in it, this painting was sold to him after being superbly repaired for $155 million in March 2013. It is known about this painting that it was accomplished in one afternoon.
1. The Card Players – $259 million
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