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The ten most expensive paintings in history When Pablo Picasso's masterpiece, Les Femmes d’Alger, sold for $179 million (£116 million) in New York on Monday night, it smashed the record for a painting sold at auction. But even so it is still far from the most expensive painting of all time. It manages only fourth place. Others have changed hands for millions more in private sales. Here are the 10 most expensive paintings in history. (The prices shown are all adjusted for inflation.) Gauguin's 1982 picture of two Tahitian girls smashed the record for the world's most expensive single work of art, when Qatar bought the canvas from a Swiss collector for almost $300 million in February.
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20 Most Famous Paintings of All Time While the imagery in this painting might not be the most immediately recognizable, having sold for $78.1 million (adjusted price of $127.4 million), French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoires Bal du Moulin de la Galette is one of the most expensive paintings of all time and therefore, one of the most famous.
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5 of the Most Expensive Items in the World In a city near Paris, France, a sword used by Napoléon Bonaparte sold for €4.8 million (£3.3 million; $6.5 million), making it the most valuable weapon of its kind on the planet. The sword is 39 inches long, with a curved steel blade that’s decorated in gold.
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Top 30 Most Expensive Guitars EVER! 30 Most Valuable Guitars In The World. 1 Fender ‘Reach out to Asia’ Stratocaster – $2.7 million. The most expensive guitar ever to appear at auction, the ‘Reach out to Asia’ Fender Stratocaster was sold in order to raise money to help the victims of the 2004 tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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25 Most Expensive Pieces Of Jewelry In The World Gloria Stuart wore one of the most expensive jewels ever at the 1998 Academy Awards. This Harry Winston Sapphire has an estimated price of $20 million and is an exact replica of the piece of jewelry from the Titanic. It is the most expensive piece of jewelry ever worn at the Oscars and replicas are being sold for $3.5 million in auction sales.
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That $450 Million Leonardo? Itâs No Mona Lisa. On Wednesday night, at Christie’s postwar and contemporary sale (in which it was incongruously included to reach bidders beyond Renaissance connoisseurs), the Leonardo sold for a shocking $450.3 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction.
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Top 20 Most Expensive Paintings in the World This iconic work was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction until it was surpassed by Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud. The work is the most colorful of the four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece 'The Scream', and the only one still in private hands.
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Glendale's 7 most expensive public art pieces Glendale's 7 most expensive public art pieces. Glendale has 29 pieces of major public art. Here's a look at 7 of the most expensive . Post to Facebook. Glendale's 7 most expensive public art pieces Glendale has 29 pieces of major public art. Here's a look at 7 of the most expensive .
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The five most expensive paintings of all time Blame the one percent, or more accurately, members of the .001 percent (especially the ones from the Middle East and Russia) who don’t think twice about dropping amounts north of $100 million dollars for paintings by famous artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin and Picasso.
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Leonardo da Vinci In fact, recently a painting by Pablo Picasso was sold for $179.3 million and a sculpture by Alberto Giacomett was sold for over $141 million. Here's a look at some of the most expensive things available in the world. On May 11, 2015, Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) was sold for $179.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York — a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at an auction.
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Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Sold at AuctionThe World's Most Valuable Fine Art Pictures. One of the greatest expressionist paintings ever, this Munch masterpiece holds a number of records. The most expensive painting ever sold at auction, it is also the highest priced work of modern art as well as the costliest of all pastel drawings. The work is seen as an expression of personal suffering.
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- The Pink Star becomes the world’s most expensive diamond The Pink Star becomes the world’s most expensive diamond. The Pink Star diamond smashed all records when it sold for $71.2m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong yesterday, the highest price paid for any diamond at auction. 05 April 2017 by REBECCA DOULTON
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The 10 most expensive paintings ever sold In February, a painting by Paul Gauguin was reportedly bought for $300m (£200m), making it the most expensive painting ever sold, at auction or in a private sale. Monday night’s sale makes Picasso’s piece the third most expensive painting to have ever been sold.
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What Is the Most Expensive Element? Lutetium is the most expensive element that you could actually order and purchase. The price for 100 grams of lutetium is around $10,000. So, from a practical standpoint, lutetium is the most expensive element. The transuranium elements, in general, are extremely expensive.
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- Most Expensive Stolen Works of Art. Poppy Flowers, a small painting by Vincent van Gogh is worth a considerably large sum in the art world: $55 million. The one foot-by-one foot painting of a vase with poppy flowers, painted in 1882, was stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, Egypt, in 2010.
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The Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold Number 1 – No. 5, 1948. The winner.. the most expensive painting ever to be sold is Jackson Pollock’s No. 5, 1948, based on his famous “drip” style. Bought by David Martinez for a whopping $140 million, it’s the piece that proves contemporary-style is currently the most wanted within the high-class society.
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Valuable Violins - 10 of the World's Most Expensive Its most famous owner is the celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who owned it for more than 20 years until his death in 1999. It was then purchased by the renowned collector David L. Fulton, for a reported price of $6 million, making it the world’s most expensive violin ever sold. Made in 1743, this violin is named after its former owner, the Victorian-era English violinist John Carrodus who owned it in the late 1800s.
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The Most Expensive House In The World Could Sell For $1.1 Billion Then there’s the location. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat now has the most expensive price per square meter—more than €200,000 at the top end—in the world, according to le-gotha.com: “More than 50 of the most beautiful villas of the 600 on the presqu’île are worth their weight in gold.
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- Most Expensive Stolen Works of Art. The Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius violin is one of the most expensive instruments in the world, valued at $3.5 mllion. It was stolen in 1995 from the New York City apartment of 91-year-old Erica Morini, a former concert violinist, while she was hospitalized and dying.
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- by G. Fernández - theartwolf.com. There are a lot of websites displaying the 10 most expensive paintings ever sold or similar lists. But unfortunately, most of these lists are incorrect, often being obsoletes, often ignoring the private sales and showing only those pictures sold at auction.
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5 of the Most Expensive Items in the World Mouawad Jewelers also holds the world record for the most expensive necklace in the world — “L’Incomparable” — priced at $55 million. Napoleon’s Sword from Facebook 5.
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25 Most Expensive Things In The World Although another set known as the Jewel Royale has been rumored by some websites to be the most expensive in the world at $9.8 million it was never actually created and remains little more than a concept.
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List of most expensive paintings List of most expensive paintings. This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The earliest sale on the list (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from 1987, and more than tripled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in top picture prices.
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List of most expensive paintings Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol are by far the best represented artists in the list. Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, Van Gogh (supposedly) sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 francs (about $1600 in 2011) to the impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch.
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The five most expensive paintings of all time Mark Rothko, No. 6 (Violet, Red and Green) (1951) How much: $186 million (paid in 2014) Who’s the big spender: Dmitry Rybolovlev. Although Rothko is synonymous with floating rectangle paintings like this one, they are, in fact, products of his late career.
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What is world auction record for the highest price paid for a painting? What was the highest price ever paid for a Claude Monet painting? The most expensive Monet painting sold was auctioned off at a final amount of L 19.8 million (nineteen point eight million British pounds) to an anonymous telephone bidder.