List of most expensive paintings
List of highest prices paid
This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2018. Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the painting was sold.

List of most expensive paintings

Section Title: List of highest prices paid
Table Section Text: This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2018. 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	Image	Artist	Year	Date of sale	Rank at sale	Seller	Buyer	Auction house

$460.3	$450.3	Salvator Mundi	-	attributed to Leonardo da Vinci	c. 1500	November 15, 2017	1	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism	Christie's, New York

~$317	~$300	Interchange	Willem de Kooning	1955	September 2015	1	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale

$278 +	$250 +	The Card Players	-	Paul Cézanne	1892/93	April 2011	1	George Embiricos	State of Qatar	Private sale

$222	$210	Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)	-	Paul Gauguin	1892	September 2014	2	Rudolf Staechelin heirs	State of Qatar	Private sale

~$211	~$200	Number 17A	Jackson Pollock	1948	September 2015	4	David Geffen Foundation	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale

$197.7	$183.8	Wasserschlangen II	Klimt - Wasserschlangen II (Freundinnen) - 1904.jpeg	Gustav Klimt	1904-07	2013	2	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale

$197	$186 (€140)	No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)	Mark Rothko	1951	August 2014	3	Cherise Moueix	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier

$190	$180 (€160M for pair)	Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit	Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit.jpeg	Rembrandt	1634	September 2015	7	Éric de Rothschild	Rijksmuseum and Louvre	Private sale

$189.6	$179.4	Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")	Pablo Picasso	1955	May 11, 2015	5	Private collection	Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani	Christie's, New York

$180.1	$170.4	Nu couché	-	Amedeo Modigliani	1917/18	November 9, 2015	9	Laura Mattioli Rossi	Liu Yiqian	Christie's, New York

$174.0	$140	No. 5, 1948	Jackson Pollock	1948	November 2, 2006	1	David Geffen	David Martinez	Private sale via Sotheby's

$170.9	$137.5	Woman III	Willem de Kooning	1953	November 18, 2006	2	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian

$168.7	$165.0	Masterpiece	Roy Lichtenstein	1962	January 2017	12	Agnes Gund	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale

$167.8	$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	-	Gustav Klimt	1907	June 18, 2006	1	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's

$166.7	$155	Le Rêve	Pablo Picasso	1932	March 26, 2013	6	Steve Wynn	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale

$157.2	$157.2	Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)	-	Amedeo Modigliani	1917	May 15, 2018	Sotheby's, New York

$158.2	$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	-	Vincent van Gogh	1890	May 15, 1990	1	Siegfried Kramarsky heirs	Ryoei Saito	Christie's, New York

$156.6	$150	Adele Bloch-Bauer II	-	Gustav Klimt	1912	2016	10	Oprah Winfrey	Unidentified buyer in China	Private sale via Larry Gagosian

$153.2	$142.4	Three Studies of Lucian Freud	Francis Bacon	1969	November 12, 2013	8	Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn	Christie's, New York

$149.8	$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette	-	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1876	May 17, 1990	2	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei Saito	Sotheby's, New York

$143.9	$140.8 (¥931.5)	Twelve Landscape Screens	Qi Baishi	1925	December 17, 2017	Beijing Poly Auction

$138.2	$104.2	Garçon à la pipe	-	Pablo Picasso	1905	May 5, 2004	3	Greentree Foundation (Whitney family)	Guido Barilla (suspected)	Sotheby's, New York

$130.9	$119.9	The Scream	-	Edvard Munch	1895	May 2, 2012	8	Petter Olsen	Leon Black	Sotheby's, New York

$129.1	$120	Otahi	-	Paul Gauguin	1893	2013	10	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale

$129	$118	Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion	-	Amedeo Modigliani	1917	2012	8	Steven A. Cohen	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale via Yves Bouvier

$126.4	$110.0	Flag	Jasper Johns	1958	March 2010	7	Jean-Christophe Castelli	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale, estimated price

$122.3	$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust	Pablo Picasso	1932	May 4, 2010	9	Frances Lasker Brody estate	Leonard Blavatnik (suspected)	Christie's, New York

$121.3	$58 plus exchange of works	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	-	Vincent van Gogh	1889	August 1, 1989	1	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich

$118.9	$53.9	Irises	-	Vincent van Gogh	1889	November 11, 1987	1	John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond	Sotheby's, New York

$118.3	$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat	Pablo Picasso	1941	May 3, 2006	6	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili	Sotheby's, New York

$115.0	$115	Young Girl with a Flower Basket	-	Pablo Picasso	1905	May 8, 2018	David and Peggy Rockefeller	Unidentified buyer	Christie's, New York

$116.4	$100.0	Eight Elvises	Andy Warhol	1963	October 2008	10	Annibale Berlingieri	The State of Qatar (suspected)	Private sale via Philippe Ségalot

$113.7 +	$105.7 + (¥10,300)	Anna's Light	Barnett Newman	1968	October 4, 2013	DIC Corp.	Private sale

$113.4	$105.4	Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)	Andy Warhol	1963	November 13, 2013	Sotheby's, New York

$112.9	$110.5	Untitled	Jean-Michel Basquiat	1982	May 18, 2017	Basquiat family	Yusaku Maezawa	Sotheby’s, New York

$109.9	$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	-	Vincent van Gogh	1889	November 19, 1998	5	Jacques Koerfer [de] heirs	Christie's, New York

$108	$100	La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir	-	Paul Cézanne	1904	2013	Edsel and Eleanor Ford House	State of Qatar	Private sale

$106.8	$76.7 (£49.5)	Massacre of the Innocents	0 Le Massacre des Innocents d'après P.P. Rubens - Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique (2).JPG	Peter Paul Rubens	1611	July 10, 2002	6	an Austrian family	Kenneth Thomson	Sotheby's, London

$100.8	$95.4	Nurse	Roy Lichtenstein	1964	November 9, 2015	Christie's, New York

$100.4	$86.3	Triptych, 1976	Francis Bacon	1976	May 14, 2008	Jean-Pierre Moueix heirs	Roman Abramovich	Sotheby's, New York

$99.7	$49.3 (F300)	Les Noces de Pierrette	Pablo Picasso	1905	November 30, 1989	3	Fredrik Roos [sv]	Tomonori Tsurumaki	Binoche et Godeau Paris

$99.4	$80.0	False Start	Jasper Johns	1959	October 12, 2006	11	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale via Richard Gray

$98.9	$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	-	Vincent van Gogh	1889	May 1993	6	Emil Georg Bührle's son	Walter H. Annenberg	Private sale via Steven Mazoh

$98.9	$85 (€54)	Te Fare (La maison)	-	Paul Gauguin	1892	June 2008	Yves Bouvier	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Private sale

$96.7	$47.8	Yo, Picasso	Pablo Picasso	1901	May 9, 1989	2	Wendell Cherry	Stavros Niarchos	Sotheby's, New York

$96.7	$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn	Andy Warhol	1964	May 20, 2007	Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian

$95.3	$70.0	Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page	-	Titian	1533	November 2003	10	AXA insurance company	Getty Museum	Private sale via Hervé Aaron

$94.8	$86.9	Orange, Red, Yellow	Mark Rothko	1961	May 8, 2012	David Pincus estate	Christie's, New York

$91.9	$91.9	Chop Suey	Edward Hopper	1929	November 13, 2018	Barney A. Ebsworth estate	Christie's, New York

$93.7	$80.5 (£40.9)	Le Bassin aux Nymphéas	-	Claude Monet	1919	June 24, 2008	J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller	Christie's, London

$90.3	$90.3	Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)	David Hockney	1972	November 15, 2018	Christie’s, New York

$91.0	$60.5	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier	-	Paul Cézanne	1894	May 10, 1999	9	Whitney Family	Sotheby's, New York

$89.1	$84.2	Black Fire I	Barnett Newman	1961	May 13, 2014	Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York

$88.0	$72.8	White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)	Mark Rothko	1950	May 15, 2007	David Rockefeller, Sr.	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani	Sotheby's, New York

$85.8	$85.8	Suprematist Composition	-	Kazimir Malevich	1916	May 15, 2018	The Nahmad family	Anonymous	Christie's, New York

$87.5	$39.7 (£24.75)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	-	Vincent van Gogh	1888	March 30, 1987	1	Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp.	Christie's, London

$84.7	$84.7	Nymphéas en fleur	-	Claude Monet	1914-1917	May 8, 2018	David and Peggy Rockefeller	Unidentified buyer	Christie's, New York

$86.7	$81.9	Triple Elvis	Andy Warhol	1963	November 12, 2014	WestSpiel [de]	Christie's, New York

$86.7	$71.7	Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)	Andy Warhol	1963	May 16, 2007	Private collection, Zürich	Philip Niarchos	Christie's, New York

$86.6	$81.9	No. 10	Mark Rothko	1958	May 13, 2015	Christie's, New York

$85.5	$80.8	Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards	Francis Bacon	1984	May 13, 2014	Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York.

$85.0	$81.4	Meule	-	Claude Monet	1891	November 16, 2016	Christie's, New York

~$84	~$75 (€50-60)	Darmstadt Madonna	-	Hans Holbein	1526	July 12, 2011	Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse	Reinhold Würth	Private sale via Christoph Graf Douglas

$83.1	$81.3	Laboureur dans un champ	Van Gogh - Acker mit pflügenden Bauern.jpeg	Vincent van Gogh	1889	November 13, 2017	Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass estate	Christie's, New York

$80.8	$80.8	Odalisque couchée aux magnolias	Henri Matisse	1923	May 8, 2018	David and Peggy Rockefeller	Unidentified buyer	Christie's, New York

$82.5	$70.6 (£50)	Diana and Actaeon	-	Titian	1556–1559	February 1, 2009	Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London	Private sale

$82.3	$40.7	Au Lapin Agile	-	Pablo Picasso	1904	November 27, 1989	5	Linda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Whitney Payson	Walter H. Annenberg	Sotheby's, New York

$82.2	$68	The Gross Clinic	-	Thomas Eakins	1875	April 12, 2007	Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Private sale

$82.0	$75.1	No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)	Mark Rothko	1954	November 13, 2012	John and Anne Marion	Sotheby's, New York

$81.6	$38.5 (£20.9)	Acrobate et jeune arlequin	Pablo Picasso	1905	November 28, 1988	3	Roger Janssen heirs?	Mitsukoshi	Christie's, London

$80.0	$55.0	Femme aux Bras Croisés	-	Pablo Picasso	1902	November 8, 2000	Chauncey McCormick heirs	Christie's, New York

$79.2	$69.0	Nude Sitting on a Divan ("La Belle Romaine")	-	Amedeo Modigliani	1917	November 2, 2010	Halit Cıngıllıoglu	Sotheby's, New York

$78.9	$63.5	Police Gazette	Willem de Kooning	1955	October 12, 2006	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Richard Gray.

$78.2	$71.7 (£45)	Diana and Callisto	-	Titian	1556–1559	March 2, 2012	Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London	Private sale

$74.6	$70.5	Untitled (New York City)	Cy Twombly	1968	November 11, 2015	Sydney M. Irmas heirs	Christie's, New York

$74.5	$49.5	Femme assise dans un jardin	Pablo Picasso	1938	November 10, 1999	Robert Saidenberg	Sotheby's, New York

$74.3	$70.2 (£42.2)	Portrait of George Dyer Talking	Francis Bacon	1966	February 13, 2014	Christie's, London

$74.1	$47.5	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat	-	Vincent van Gogh	1890	1997	11	Steve Wynn	Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York

$73.7	$69.6	Untitled	Cy Twombly	1970	November 12, 2014	Nicola del Roscio	Christie's, New York

$73.7	$69.6	Four Marlons	Andy Warhol	1966	November 12, 2014	WestSpiel	Christie's, New York

$72.9	$65.5 (¥425.5)	Eagle Standing on Pine Tree	-	Qi Baishi	1946	May 22, 2011	Liu Yiqian	Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co	China Guardian Auctions

$72.8	$63.4	Men in Her Life	Andy Warhol	1962	November 8, 2010	Jose Mugrabi	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani	Phillips de Pury & Company

$71.6	$70.1	Contraste de formes	Fernand Léger	1913	November 13, 2017	Anna-Maria [de] and Stephen Kellen [de] Foundation	Christie's, New York

$71.3	$67.45	La Gommeuse	-	Pablo Picasso	1901	November 5, 2015	William I. Koch	Sotheby's, New York.

$71.1	$35.2	Portrait of a Halberdier	-	Pontormo	1537	May 31, 1989	5	Chauncey Stillman	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York

$71.2	$67.4	Buste de femme (Femme à la résille)	Pablo Picasso	1938	May 11, 2015	Steve Wynn	Joseph Lau	Christie's, New York

$70.1	$66.3	L’Allée des Alyscamps	Van Gogh - Les Alyscamps, Allee in Arles1.jpeg	Vincent van Gogh	1888	May 5, 2015	Sotheby's, New York

$70.1	$66.2	Untitled	Mark Rothko	1952	May 13, 2014	Private Collection	Anonymous	Christie's, New York

$69.2	$62.1 (¥402.5)	Zhichuan Resettlement	-	Wang Meng	1350	June 4, 2011	Beijing Poly Auction

$69.2	$66.3	Untitled XXV	Willem de Kooning	1977	November 15, 2016	Christie's, New York

$68.9	$65.1	Jeanne (Spring)	-	Édouard Manet	1881	November 5, 2014	Oliver Hazard Payne heirs	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York

$68.9	$68.9	Woman as Landscape	Willem de Kooning	1955	November 13, 2018	Barney A. Ebsworth estate	Christie's, New York

$68.7	$61.7	1949-A-No.1	Clyfford Still	1949	November 9, 2011	City and County of Denver	Sotheby's, New York

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Dora Maar au Chat is one of the most expensive paintings.

final_sentence: Dora Maar au Chat is one of the most expensive paintings.