List of most expensive paintings

Adjusted price (in millions)	Original price (in millions)	Painting	Image	Artist	Year	Date of sale	Rank at sale	Seller	Buyer	Auction house
$269.4	$259 +[note 2]	The Card Players		Paul Cézanne	1892/93	April 2011	1	George Embiricos	State of Qatar	Private sale [1][2][3]
$162.7	$140	No. 5, 1948		Jackson Pollock	1948	November 2, 2006	1	David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's[6]
$159.8	$137.5	Woman III		Willem de Kooning	1953	November 18, 2006	2	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian[7]
$155.9	$155	Le Rêve		Pablo Picasso	1932	March 26, 2013	4	Steve Wynn	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale[8]
$155.8	$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I		Gustav Klimt	1907	June 18, 2006	1	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's[9]
$149.5	$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet		Vincent van Gogh	1890	May 15, 1990	1	Siegfried Kramarskyfamily	Ryoei Saito.[note 3]	Christie's, New York
$142.4	$142.4	Three Studies of Lucian Freud		Francis Bacon	1969	November 12, 2013	7		Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn [12]	Christie's, New York [13]
$141.5	$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette[note 4]		Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1876	May 17, 1990	2	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei Saito[note 5]	Sotheby's, New York
$129.0	$104.2	Garçon à la pipe		Pablo Picasso	1905	May 4, 2004	3	Greentree foundation(Whitney family)	Barilla Group?[14]	Sotheby's, New York[15]
$122.2	$119.9	The Scream[note 6]		Edvard Munch	1895	May 2, 2012	8	Petter Olsen	Leon Black [16]	Sotheby's, New York
$118.3	$110.0	Flag[note 7]		Jasper Johns	1954	March 2010	8	Jean-Christophe Castelli	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale, estimated price[17]
$114.3	$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust		Pablo Picasso	1932	May 4, 2010	7	Frances Lasker Brody estate		Christie's, New York[18]
$111 ++	$58 plus exchange of works[note 8]	Portrait of Joseph Roulin		Vincent van Gogh	1889	August 1, 1989	1	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich[19]
$110.1	$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat		Pablo Picasso	1941	May 3, 2006	4	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili[20]	Sotheby's, New York[21]
$109.4	$53.9	Irises		Vincent van Gogh	1889	November 11, 1987	1	son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond[note 9]	Sotheby's, New York
$108.1	$100.0	Eight Elvises		Andy Warhol	1963	October 2008	10	Annibale Berlingieri		Private sale via Philippe Ségalot[22]
$105.7	$105.7 (¥10,300)	Anna's Light		Barnett Newman	1968	October 4, 2013	16	DIC Corp.		Private sale [23][24][25]
$105.4	$105.4	Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)		Andy Warhol	1963	November 13, 2013	17			Sotheby's, New York [26]
$102.1	$87.9	Adele Bloch-Bauer II		Gustav Klimt	1912	November 2, 2006	9	Maria Altmann		Christie's, New York
$102.1	$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe		Vincent van Gogh	1889	November 19, 1998	5	Heirs of Jacques Koerfer (de)		Christie's, New York
$99.7	$76.7 (£49.5)	Massacre of the Innocents		Peter Paul Rubens	1611	July 10, 2002	6	an Austrian family	Kenneth Thomson[note 10]	Sotheby's, London
$93.3	$86.3	Triptych, 1976		Francis Bacon	1976	May 14, 2008	13	Moueix Family,Château Pétrus[28]	Roman Abramovich[29]	Sotheby's, New York[30]
$92.8	$80.0	False Start		Jasper Johns	1959	October 12, 2006	10	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale via Richard Gray[31]
$92.6	$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses		Vincent van Gogh	1889	May 1993	5	son of Emil Georg Bührle	Walter H. Annenberg[note 11]	Private sale via Steven Mazoh
$91.7	$49.3 (F300)	Les Noces de Pierrette		Pablo Picasso	1905	November 30, 1989	3	Fredrik Roos (sv)[32]	Tomonori Tsurumaki	Binoche et Godeau Paris
$90.5	$47.85	Yo, Picasso		Pablo Picasso	1901	May 9, 1989	2	Wendell Cherry (de)	Stavros Niarchos	Sotheby's, New York
$90.1	$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn		Andy Warhol	1964	May 20, 2007	17	Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian[33]
$88.8	$70.0	Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page		Titian	1533	November 2003	10	AXA insurance company	Getty Museum	Private sale via Hervé Aaron[34][35]
$88.5	$86.9	Orange, Red, Yellow		Mark Rothko	1961	May 8, 2012	24	Estate of David Pincus		Christie's, New York[36]
$86.2	$80.5 (£40.9)	Le Bassin aux Nymphéas		Claude Monet	1919	June 24, 2008	20	J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller		Christie's, London[37]
$85.2	$60.5	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier[note 12]		Paul Cézanne	1894	May 10, 1999	9	Whitney Family		Sotheby's, New York
$82.9	$39.7 (£24.75)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers		Vincent van Gogh	1888	March 30, 1987	1	daughter-in-law ofChester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp.	Christie's, London
$82.0	$72.8	White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)		Mark Rothko	1950	May 15, 2007	21	David Rockefeller, Sr.	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani[39]	Sotheby's, New York[40]
$80.8	$71.7	Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)		Andy Warhol	1963	May 16, 2007	22	Private collection, Zürich	Philip Niarchos	Christie's, New York[41]
$77.9	$70.6 (£50)	Diana and Actaeon		Titian	1556–1559	February 1, 2009	26	Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland &National Gallery, London	Private sale[42][43][44]
$77.7	$75 (€50-60) [note 13]	Darmstadt Madonna		Hans Holbein	1526	July 12, 2011	29	Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse	Reinhold Würth	Private sale via Christoph Graf Douglas[45]
$77.0	$68	The Gross Clinic		Thomas Eakins	1875	April 12, 2007	21	Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Private sale.[46]
$76.0	$75.1	No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)		Mark Rothko	1954	November 13, 2012	33	John and Anne Marion		Sotheby's, New York [47]
$75.7	$40.7	Au Lapin Agile		Pablo Picasso	1904	November 27, 1989	5	daughter of Joan Whitney Payson	Walter H. Annenberg	Sotheby's, New York
$75.0	$38.5 (£20.9)	Acrobate et jeune arlequin[note 14]		Pablo Picasso	1905	November 28, 1988	3	heir of Roger Janssen? [note 15]	Mitsukoshi	Christie's, London
$74.0	$55.0	Femme aux Bras Croisés		Pablo Picasso	1902	November 8, 2000	13	McCormick family, Chicago		Christie's, New York[48]
$73.8	$69.0	Nude Sitting on a Divan ("La Belle Romaine")		Amedeo Modigliani	1917	November 2, 2010	32	Halit Cıngıllıoglu[49]		Sotheby's, New York[50]
$73.7	$63.5	Police Gazette[51]		Willem de Kooning	1955	October 12, 2006	20	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Richard Gray[31]
$73.2	$71.7 (£45)	Diana and Callisto		Titian	1556–1559	March 2, 2012	36	Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland &National Gallery, London	Private sale[52]
$69.3	$47.5	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat		Vincent van Gogh	1890	1997	11		Steve Wynn[note 16]	Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York[54]
$69.0	$49.6	Femme assise dans un jardin		Pablo Picasso	1938	November 10, 1999	15	Robert Saidenberg[55]		Sotheby's, New York
$67.9	$65.5 (¥425.5)	Eagle Standing on Pine Tree[56]		Qi Baishi	1946	May 22, 2011	38	Liu Yiqian	Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co[57]	China Guardian Auctions
$67.8	$63.4	Men in Her Life		Andy Warhol	1962	November 8, 2010	37	Jose Mugrabi		Phillips de Pury & Company[58]
$66.6	$35.2	Portrait of a Halberdier		Pontormo	1537	May 31, 1989	5	Chauncey Devereaux Stillman	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$66.1	$60.0	Suprematist Composition		Kazimir Malevich	1916	November 3, 2008	35	Heirs of Kazimir Malevich		Sotheby's, New York[59]
$64.4	$62.1 (¥402.5)	Zhichuan Resettlement[60]		Wang Meng	1350	June 4, 2011	42			Beijing Poly Auction
$63.9	$61.7	1949-A-No.1		Clyfford Still	1949	November 9, 2011	44	City and County of Denver		Sotheby's, New York[61]