Video: Top 10: the most expensive paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The fates of great artists were often difficult: lack of money, lack of recognition, and only an all-consuming love for their work. Once upon a time, painting masters spent their last money not on food, but on paints or canvases. Now collectors do not spare millions to get their paintings. Here are a dozen of the most expensive paintings in the history of painting.
1. "No. 5, 1948 ", Paul Jackson Pollock, $ 140 millionThe world of painting knows Pollock as the inventor of a new style, which the author called "pouring technique". Its essence lies in painting on canvases by splashing paint, the brush does not touch the canvas. The painting, painted in 1948 using this unique technique, was sold in 2006 at Sotheby's and has remained the most expensive ever since.
2. "Woman III", Willem de Kooning, $ 137.5 millionWillem de Kooning was a friend of Paul Pollock, and on our list, they also sit next to each other. This work is part of a series on women, created between 1951 and 1953.
3. "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I", Gustav Klimt, $ 135 millionThe painting is one of the most famous paintings by Klimt, it is also called "Golden Adele" and "Austrian Mona Lisa". The work was created in 1908 by order of Adele's husband Ferdinand Bloch.
4. Boy with a Pipe, Pablo Picasso, $ 104.1 millionThe painting refers to the early, so-called "pink" period of Picasso's work (1905) and depicts a Parisian boy with a pipe in his hand and a wreath of flowers on his head.
5. "Dora Maar with a Cat", Pablo Picasso, $ 95.2 millionDora Maar is a French artist and photographer who was Picasso's girlfriend, model and muse for 9 years. The painting was painted in 1941.
6. "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II", Gustav Klimt, $ 87.9 millionAdele Bloch-Bauer is the only Klimt model that he has depicted in his paintings twice. Both works were included in the top ten most expensive paintings in the world.
7. "Triptych", Francis Bacon, $ 86.3 millionThe painting, painted in 1976, became the property of Roman Abramovich in 2008.
8. "Portrait of Dr. Gachet", Vincent van Gogh, $ 82.5 millionThe portrait was painted by the artist in the last months of his life and is dedicated to one of Van Gogh's closest people - his psychiatrist.
9. "Pond with Water Lilies", Claude Monet, $ 80.5 millionThe painting is part of the author's so-called water series. Its original price at Christie's in 2008 was $ 35- $ 47 million, the more unexpected was the final result of the auction.
10. False Start, Jasper Johns, $ 80 millionThe only painting on this list by a contemporary artist. Date of creation - 1959.
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