The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo was first reported in 2015 at close to $300 million, but a 2017 court case revealed the actual price to be roughly $210 million. Private-sale figures are estimates (prices converted to US dollars).

  1. Salvator Mundi (Leonardo da Vinci): $450.3 million
  2. Interchange (Willem de Kooning): $300 million
  3. The Card Players (Paul Cézanne): $250 million
  4. Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (Gustav Klimt): $236.4 million
  5. Nafea Faa Ipoipo (Paul Gauguin): $210 million
  6. Number 17A (Jackson Pollock): $200 million
  7. The Standard Bearer (Rembrandt): $198 million
  8. Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (Andy Warhol): $195 million
  9. No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) (Mark Rothko): $186 million
  10. Wasserschlangen II (Gustav Klimt): $183.8 million

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