10 Most Expensive Paintings in The World

You have to own a good art sense to enjoy these most expensive paintings in the world. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete. Paintings may be decorated with gold leaf, and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper.
Painting is a mode of expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.
A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other scenes of eastern religious origin.
Most expensive paintings usually sold on an auction of private sales. Here’s the list of most expensive paintings ever sold. We have to take consideration that the world’s most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. Guinness World Records lists the Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting in history. It was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962, before the painting toured the United States for several months. However, the Louvre chose to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be approximately US$670 million in 2006.
So Here’s the list of the Top 10 Most Expensive Painting in the world ever sold:
10. Irises From Vincent Van Gogh ($53,900,000)Vincent van Gogh painted this at Saint Paul-de-Mausole region Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in 1889, a year before his death. In 1987, It is the most expensive painting at that time.

Irises from Vincent Van Gogh

9. Femme aux Bras Croisés By Pablo Picasso ($55,000,000)
Painted in 1901, among the best paintings Picasso. Describes a woman who embraced herself in pain and in the same period think about something without end

Femme Aux Bras Croisés from Pablo Picasso

8. Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier By Paul Cézanne ($60,500,000)Painted by Paul Cézanne, 1893-1894, and sold at a price of $ 60,500,000 at Sotheby’s New York on May 10, 1999 to “The Whitneys”.

Rideau Cruchon Et Compotier By Paul Cezanne

7. Portrait de l’Artiste sans Barbe By Vincent van Gogh ($71,500,000)
Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe ( “Painting myself without pot”) between portrait paintings by van Gogh himself.

Portrait de l'Artiste sans Barbe by Vincent Van Gogh

6. Massacre of the Innocents By Peter Paul Rubens ($76,700,000)
The painting was produced by Peter Paul Rubens in 1611, It is among the rare paintings produced in 16th and 17th.

Massacre of the Innocents By Peter Paul Rubens

5. Bal Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir ($78,000,000)Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre was painted by French artist named Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1876. On May 17, 1990 sold for $ 78,000,000 at Sotheby’s, New York City to Ryoei Saito, whereas in the same period has bought Portrait of Dr. Gachet (Figure below).

Bal Au Moulin de la Galette By Pierre Auguste Rennoir

4. Portrait Dr. Gachet By Vincent van Gogh ($82,500,000)
Vincent van Gogh self-portrait and portrait of Dr. Gachet’s been painted with two types of portraits. You can see the other versions but can be found at Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Portrait Dr Gachet By Vincent Van Gogh

3. Dora Maar with a Cat By Pablo Picasso ($95,200,000)
Painted in 1941, Picasso’s controversial painting (between the last picture) is said to ex-wife of Picasso, Dora Maar which lasted for 10 years between 1930 and 1940.

Dora Maar with Cat By Pablo Picasso

2. Garçon à la Pipe By Pablo Picasso ($104,100,000)Created during the season of flowers Rose. Oil painting on canvas paper measuring 100 x 81.3 cm featured a Parsi slave holding a pipe in his left hand.

Garçon à la Pipe By Pablo Picasso

1. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer oleh Gustav Klimt ($135,000,000)The story begins with the command that the Austrian empire to restore the painting to the heirs and achieved after World War II. Painted with great skill and precision in 1907 by Gustav Klimt and the portrait was purchased by Ronald S. Lauder in 2006 for $135,000,000 and become the most expensive Painting till now.

Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer By Gustav Klimt

Just my own opinion that the most expensive painting ever would be Monalisa painting from Leonardo Da Vinci If It’s sold