THE WORLD’S MOST-EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS SOLD AT AUCTION

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After Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Christ, Salvator Mundi, smashed the record for the most expensive painting sold at auction, we take a look at some of the artworks to have previously held the title.

We have included the sale prices, which do not take into account inflation.

Salvator Mundi | Leonardo da Vinci | (1490-1519) | sold for $450.3m (€382m)

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Interchange | Willem de Kooning | (1955) | sold for c.$300m (€254m)

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The Card Players | Paul Cézanne | (1892/93) | sold for c.$250m (€212m)

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Nafea Faa Ipoipo | Paul Gauguin | (1892) | sold for $210m (€178.3m)

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Number 17A | Jackson Pollock | (1948) | sold for c$200m (€169.8m)

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No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) | Mark Rothko | (1951) | sold for $186m (€157.9m)

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Portraits of Maerten Soolmans/Oopjen Coppit | Rembrandt | (1634) | sold for $180m (€152.8m)

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Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”) | Pablo Picasso | (1955) | sold for $179.4m (€152.3m)

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Nu Couché | Amedeo Modigliani | (1917/18) | sold for $170.4m (€144.6m)

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No. 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | (1948) | sold for $140m (€118.8m)

source: http://www.livingit.euronews.com/2017/11/16/listed-the-world-s-most-expensive-paintings-sold-at-auction

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The same case. After a little drunk with a friend. In Kiev. near the gallery of contemporary art. Cognac, he generally contributes to philosophizing. have come to one conclusion that has nothing better than traditional art)) All this vagina in head/ dont understand and dont like such kind of art)))

i agree, haha some is not understandable to me as well

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I like the third painting

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