Top 10 Highest Priced Paintings Ever Sold

Most of us are aware that fine art is often incredibly expensive, so much so that only the richest and most powerful people in the world could possibly hope to own it. Most of the time, a single individual could not possibly hope to own a valuable fine art painting and it would probably end up taking an entire organization to have the funds necessary to acquire one. Some paintings actually cost so several millions of dollars that entire countries have not got the prosperity necessary to buy them and that is true even for painters who are not long lost to history's recesses. In fact, the highest priced painting ever sold was acquired at a price today that would be over $150 million and this was a work by renowned American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. The work was called "No. 5, 1948" and the second highest priced painting beneath it was "Woman III" by Willem de Kooning whose work sold for an only slightly lower price. In 3rd place is a work by Gustav Klimt entitled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" that makes heavy use of gold and is certainly a symbol for opulence, even today. The top selling paintings in the world are obviously not works that most of us could possibly hope to afford, but fortunately, due to their high price they are likely to be preserved for many years to come. Rounding out the rest of the top five are "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Van Gogh and "Bal du moulin del la Gallette" by Renoir. After these we have Picasso's "Dora Maar au Chat", "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust", as well as "Garcon a la pipe" - all 3 master pieces in their own right. Van Gogh has 2 other works that finish off this list: "Irises" and "Portrait of Joseph Roulin". All of these are extraordinary works that really do have extraordinary aesthetic and historical value. If you have ever wished there were a way to be able to own paintings of this kind, you will be delighted to discover that it is now easier to own incredible copies of these works that are not mere posters. People today know that they can go the same route that museums do: buy exceptional reproductions they enjoy looking at. These works are amazingly lovely and they offer so much that we can appreciate, plus they are notable painters we are all acquainted with. That means anybody can own an invaluable painting without spending a ton of cash to do so.

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