Expensive paintings

The Hong Kong Autumn sales will commence in merely one month and Sotheby’s has finally revealed the highlight lot of their Contemporary Art Evening sale. Leading the sale is Gerhard Richter’s masterpiece Abstraktes Bild (649-2) which was painted in the 80s. The piece will appear on the auction st

Every wondered what over $1 billion looks like in art? Well here's the list! The top 10 most expensive paintings includes both auction and private sales to give you the most complete list on the internet.

On Monday, Modigliani’s Reclining Nude joined an elite band of artworks that have commanded over $150m at auction or private sale – but are they worth it?

A retelling of the drama and controversy surrounding the world’s most expensive painting is set to take the stage as a major Broadway musical.

We’d like to point out the 10 most expensive paintings ever to be purchased, ranging from extremely well known artists to more obscure ones

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky loved painting the sea. A Crimean native, he was born in Feodosia, a port town, and thus had great waters as a constant companion. This 19th century Russian Armenian painter had real knack for depicting waves. Light and translucent, they perfectly capture the essence of the real thing. Many of these paintings featured a human element, too, with ships showing the struggle between man and nature.

And the ridiculous luxury goods buyers could have owned for the same prices.

This chart shows the top 10 highest-earning paintings sold at auction in history.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Are you ready to read his full name? Pablo (or Pablito) Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez. Anyways world know him as ‘’Picasso’’. Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th…

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