Top 20 most expensive paintings in the world 2024

The most famous paintings, old master works done before 1803 to contemporary works, are generally owned or held at museums, for viewing by patrons. There’s no doubt that many people would agree that the majority of artwork found in museums and private collections around the world are priceless, since they are rarely sold.

Being one of a kind, it makes it difficult to put a price on many works; however, almost on a daily basis, art is sold and bought, oftentimes bringing hefty price tags that most will never be able to afford. So, unless you’re a billionaire, hedge fund owner or some kind of royalty, owing one of the most expensive paintings in the world is nothing more than a distant dream.

Rank	Painting	Artist	Price
1.	Salvator Mundi	Leonardo da Vinci	$450.3 million
2.	Interchange	Willem de Kooning	$300 million
3.	The Card Players	Paul Cézanne	$250 million
4.	Nafea Faa Ipoipo	Paul Gauguin	$210 million
5.	Number 17A	Jackson Pollock	$200 million
6.	No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)	Mark Rothko	$186 million
7.	Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit	Rembrandt	$180 million
8.	Les Femmes d’ Alger (“Version O”)	Pablo Picasso	$197.4 million
9.	Nu couché	Amedeo Modigliani	$170.4 million
10.	Masterpiece	Roy Lichtenstein	$165 million
11.	Nu couché (Sur le côté gauche)	Amedeo Modigliani	$157.2 million
12.	Le Rêve	Pablo Picasso	$155 million
13.	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II	Gustav Klimt	$150 million
14.	Three Studies of Lucian Freud	Francis Bacon	$142.4 million
15.	No. 5, 1948	Jackson Pollock	$140 million
16.	Woman III	Willem de Kooning	$137.5 million
17.	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	Gustav Klimt	$135 million
18.	The Scream	Edvard Munch	$119.9 million
19.	Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion	Amedeo Modigliani	$118 million
20.	Untitled	Jean-Michel Basquiat	$110.5 million

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