Most Expensive and Famous Painting

List of most expensive and famous paintings

This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The earliest sale listed (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 the history of high sums of money paid for paintings. The sale was also significant in that for the first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it. The current record price is approximately $450 million paid for Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in November 2017.

1. Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)

2. Interchange (de Kooning)

3. The Card Players

4. When Will You Marry?

5. Number 17A

6. No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)

7. Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit

8. Les Femmes d'Alger

9. No. 5, 1948