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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.
Shortly afterward, in June 2021, Andreas Koefoed's documentary The Lost Leonardo premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, exploring how the painting became the most expensive ever sold and the trail of buyers involved, the debate around its attribution and provenance, and its failure to appear at the 2019–2020 Louvre exhibition. [160] [161]
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
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It is the second highest price achieved by the artist (the first being Les Femmes d'Alger which sold for $179.3 million at Christie's in 2015), and the most expensive piece of art sold at auction ...
A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. The higher final ...
Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world." [6] The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression, [7] monumentality of the composition ...
A British currency trader turned billionaire just catapulted David Hockney to status as the world's most expensive living artist.