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List of most expensive paintings. Salvator Mundi by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1500) This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$ 450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci 's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017, [1][2] through ...
In case 1, $300 million in art, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet, are stolen from a Boston museum at night. [5] In case 2, pastor Abraham Kennard scammed the savings from small churches hoping to better their communities, costing around 1600 churches $10 million.
The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Matsys around 1513. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, measuring 62.4 by 45.5 cm. [1] It shows an old woman with wrinkled skin and withered breasts. She wears the aristocratic horned headdress (escoffion) of her youth, out ...
Location. Neue Galerie, New York. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer.
In fact, back in 2013, the artist sold not one, but two paintings for well over $1 million. His painting titled "Blackwell's Island" raked in a whopping $19 million at auction. See more works by ...
Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." [1] His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in ...
Josh Flagg (center) gained notoriety for his feud with fellow Malibu Realtor Chad Rogers on the second season of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing but unfortunately for him, the publicity was just ...
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 ...