Some Of The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold (So Far)

Paintings by renowned artists which hang in famous museums are considered valuable and "priceless". However, from time to time some of them are sold in an auction to the highest bidder. Below are some of the most expensive paintings ever sold (so far).

If you were a multi-billionaire, would you have bid on [and bought] any of the pieces for the price someone paid?

Pablo Picasso
Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), 1902.
Sold for $55 million in 2000

Vincent van Gogh
A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889
Sold for $57 million in 1993

 Paul Cézanne
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, 1894
Sold for $60.5 million in 1999

 

 Willem de Kooning
Police Gazette, 1955
Sold for $63.5 in 2006

 

 Vincent van Gogh
Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe (Self-portrait without beard), 1889
Sold for $71.5 million in 1998

 

 Andy Warhol
Green Car Crash, 1963
Sold for $71.7 million in 2007

Mark Rothko
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950
Sold for $72.8 million in 2007

Peter Paul Rubens
Massacre of the Innocents, 1611
Sold for $76.7 million in 2002
 

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette), 1876
Sold for $78.1 million in 1990

Jasper Johns
False Start, 1959
Sold for $80 million in 2006

Claude Monet
Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (Water Lily Pond), 1919
Sold for $80.5 million in 2008

Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890
Sold for $82.5 million in 1990

Francis Bacon
Triptych, 1976
Sold for $86.3 million in 2008

Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), 1941
Sold for $95.2 in 2006

Pablo Picasso
Nude, Green Leaves And Bust
Sold for $106 million in New York in 2012

Edvard Munch
The Scream
Sold for $119.9 million Sotheby's in New York in 2012

Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Sold for $135 million in 2006

Paul Cézanne
The Card Players, 1892
Sold for $272 million in 2011

~ Contributed by Ralph ~