Most Expensive Paintings

Most Expensive Painting

          Painting is an art of apply color, shape and paint on surface of paper, wall, wood, stone etc. Everyone not have art of painting, only few people can make perfect painting. The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old. The painting used for, memories of great people, awareness, entertainment, as a hobby etc. The painting also sale with high price and many painting lover give a high price to artist for paintings. A successful painting has a story for viewer.

         World most expensive painting sold at price of $259US in April 2011.The name of most expensive painting is ‘The Card Players’ ,the seller was George Embiricos and buyer was Royal Family of Qatar.

  25 Most Expensive Painting List

Note: This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of March 2013 United States dollars. Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the painting was sold.

Adjusted price (in millions)	Original price (in millions)	Painting Name	Year of Creation	Date of sale	Seller	Buyer
$268.1	$259 +	The Card Players	1892/93	April 2011	George Embiricos	Royal Family of Qatar
$161.7	$140	No. 5, 1948	1948	November 2, 2006	David Geffen	David Martinez
$158.8	$137.5	Woman III	1953	November 18, 2006	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen
$155.0	$155	Le Rêve	1932	March 26, 2013	Steve Wynn	Steven A. Cohen
$154.9	$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	1907	June 18, 2006	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie
$148.6	$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	1890	May 15, 1990	Siegfried Kramarsky	Ryoei Saito
$140.7	$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette	1876	May 17, 1990	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei Saito
$128.2	$104.2	Garçon à la pipe	1905	May 4, 2004	Greentree foundation	Barilla Group
$121.4	$119.9	The Scream	1895	May 2, 2012	Petter Olsen	Leon Black
$117.6	$110.0	Flag	1954	March 2010	Jean-Christophe Castelli	Steven A. Cohen
$113.6	$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust	1932	May 4, 2010	Frances Lasker Brody
$110 ++	$58	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	1889	August 1, 1989	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York
$109.5	$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat	1941	May 3, 2006	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili
$108.7	$53.9	Irises	1889	November 11, 1987	son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond
$107.5	$100.0	Eight Elvises	1963	October 2008	Annibale Berlingieri
$101.5	$87.9	Adele Bloch-Bauer II	1912	November 2, 2006	Maria Altmann
$101.5	$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	1889	November 19, 1998	Jacques Koerfer
$99.1	$76.7	Massacre of the Innocents	1611	July 10, 2002	an Austrian family	Kenneth Thomson
$92.7	$86.3	Triptych, 1976	1976	May 14, 2008	Moueix Family,	Roman Abramovich
$92.3	$80.0	False Start	1959	October 12, 2006	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin
$92.0	$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	1889	May 1993	son of Emil Georg Bührle	Walter H. Annenberg
$91.2	$49.3	Les Noces de Pierrette	1905	November 30, 1989	Fredrik Roos	Tomonori Tsurumaki
$90.0	$47.85	Yo, Picasso	1901	May 9, 1989	Wendell Cherry	Stavros Niarchos
$89.5	$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn	1964	May 20, 2007	Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen
$88.3	$70.0	Portrait of Alfonso	1533	November 2003	AXA insurance company	Getty Museum