List of most expensive paintings
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The earliest sale listed (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from 1987, and more than tripled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in the history of high sums of money paid for paintings. The sale was also significant in that for the first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it. The current record price is approximately $450 million paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in November 2017.
See also
- Cultural commodification
- List of most expensive photographs
- List of most expensive sculptures
- List of most expensive books and manuscripts
- The Price of Everything, 2018 documentary
- Cultural Commodification
- Most expensive living artist
- Works of art in the collective unconscious
- Three Studies of Lucian Freud
- Nude Sitting on a Divan
- Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London
- Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum
- 100 Great Paintings
