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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record payment for a work is approximately US$450 million (which includes commission) for the work Salvator Mundi (c. 1500) generally considered to be by Leonardo da Vinci, though this is disputed. The painting was sold in November 2017, through the auction house Christie's in New York City.
| Adjusted (million USD) | Original (million USD) | Name | Image | Artist | Year | Date of sale | Rank at sale | Seller | Buyer | Auction house |
| $591 | $450 | Salvator Mundi | | Leonardo da Vinci (attribution disputed) | c. 1500 | November 15, 2017 | 1 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud | Christie's, New York |
| ~$407 | ~$300 | Interchange | | Willem de Kooning | 1955 | September 2015 | 1 | David Geffen Foundation | Kenneth C. Griffin | Private sale |
| $358 + | $250 + | The Card Players | | Paul Cézanne | 1892/93 | April 2011 | 1 | George Embiricos | State of Qatar | Private sale |
| $285 | $210 | Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) | | Paul Gauguin | 1892 | September 2014 | 2 | Rudolf Staechelin heirs | State of Qatar | Private sale |
| ~$272 | ~$200 | Number 17A | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | September 2015 | 4 | David Geffen Foundation | Kenneth C. Griffin | Private sale | |
| $254 | $183 | Wasserschlangen II | | Gustav Klimt | 1904–1907 | 2013 | 2 | Yves Bouvier | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Private sale |
| $253 | $186 (€140) | No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) | Mark Rothko | 1951 | August 2014 | 3 | Cherise Moueix | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Private sale via Yves Bouvier | |
| $244 | $180 (€160 million) | Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit | | Rembrandt | 1634 | February 1, 2016 | 7 | Éric de Rothschild | Rijksmuseum and Louvre | Private sale |
| $243 | $179 | 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 | |
| $236 | $236 | Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer | | Gustav Klimt | 1914-1916 | November 18, 2025 | 10 | Estate of Leonard Lauder | Sotheby's, New York | |
| $235 | $198 (€175) | The Standard Bearer | | Rembrandt | 1636 | February 2022 | 10 | Rothschild family | Rijksmuseum | Private sale |
| $231 | $170 | Nu couché | | Amedeo Modigliani | 1917/18 | November 9, 2015 | 9 | Laura Mattioli Rossi | Liu Yiqian | Christie's, New York |
| $223 | $140 | No. 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | November 2, 2006 | 1 | David Geffen | David Martinez | Private sale via Sotheby's | |
| $219 | $137 | Woman III | Willem de Kooning | 1953 | November 18, 2006 | 2 | David Geffen | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale via Larry Gagosian | |
| $216 | $165 | Masterpiece | Roy Lichtenstein | 1962 | January 2017 | 12 | Agnes Gund | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale | |
| $215 | $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 |
| $214 | $195 | Shot Sage Blue Marilyn | Andy Warhol | 1964 | May 9, 2022 | 11 | Thomas and Doris Ammann | Larry Gagosian | Christie's, New York | |
| $214 | $155 | Le Rêve | Pablo Picasso | 1932 | March 26, 2013 | 6 | Steve Wynn | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale | |
| $203 | $82 | Portrait of Dr. Gachet | | Vincent van Gogh | 1890 | May 15, 1990 | 1 | Siegfried Kramarsky heirs | Ryoei Saito | Christie's, New York |
| $201 | $157 | Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) | | Amedeo Modigliani | 1917 | May 15, 2018 | Ezra and David Nahmad | Sotheby's, New York | ||
| $201 | $150 | Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II | | Gustav Klimt | 1912 | 2016 | 10 | Oprah Winfrey | Unidentified buyer in China | Private sale via Larry Gagosian |
| $196 | $142 | Three Studies of Lucian Freud | Francis Bacon | 1969 | November 12, 2013 | 8 | Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn | Christie's, New York | ||
| $192 | $78 | Bal du moulin de la Galette | | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 1876 | May 17, 1990 | 2 | Betsey Whitney | Ryoei Saito | Sotheby's, New York |
| $184 | $140 (¥931 ) | Twelve Landscape Screens | | Qi Baishi | 1925 | December 17, 2017 | Beijing Poly Auction | |||
| $181 | $181 | Number 7A | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | May 18, 2026 | Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. | Christie’s, New York | |||
| $177 | $104 | Garçon à la pipe | | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | May 5, 2004 | 3 | Greentree Foundation (Whitney family) | Guido Barilla (suspected) | Sotheby's, New York |
| $177 | $149 | Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) | | Georges Seurat | 1888 | November 9, 2022 | 1 | Paul G. Allen | Christie's, New York | |
| $168 | $119 | The Scream | | Edvard Munch | 1895 | May 2, 2012 | 8 | Petter Olsen | Leon Black | Sotheby's, New York |
| $165 | $120 | Otahi | | Paul Gauguin | 1893 | 2013 | 10 | Yves Bouvier | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Private sale |
| $165 | $118 | Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion | | Amedeo Modigliani | 1916 | 2012 | 8 | Steven A. Cohen | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Private sale via Yves Bouvier |
| $164 | $137 | La Montagne Sainte-Victoire | | Paul Cezanne | 1888-1890 | November 9, 2022 | 2 | Paul G. Allen | Christie's, New York | |
| $162 | $110 | Flag | Jasper Johns | 1958 | March 2010 | 7 | Jean-Christophe Castelli | Steven A. Cohen | Private sale, estimated price | |
| $157 | $106 | Nude, Green Leaves and Bust | Pablo Picasso | 1932 | May 4, 2010 | 9 | Frances Lasker Brody estate | Leonard Blavatnik (suspected) | Christie's, New York | |
| $155 | $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 |
| $153 | $107 | L’Homme assis au verre | Pablo Picasso | 1914 | May 2011 | Yves Bouvier | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Private sale via Yves Bouvier | ||
| $152 | $53 | Irises | | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | November 11, 1987 | 1 | John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson | Alan Bond | Sotheby's, New York |
| $152 | $95 | Dora Maar au Chat | Pablo Picasso | 1941 | May 3, 2006 | 6 | Gidwitz family | Boris Ivanishvili | Sotheby's, New York | |
| $149 | $100 | Eight Elvises | Andy Warhol | 1963 | October 2008 | 10 | Annibale Berlingieri | The State of Qatar (suspected) | Private sale via Philippe Ségalot | |
| $147 | $115 | Young Girl with a Flower Basket | | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | May 8, 2018 | David and Peggy Rockefeller | The Nahmad family | Christie's, New York | |
| $147 | $139 | Femme à la montre | Pablo Picasso | 1932 | November 9, 2023 | Emily Fisher Landau's estate | Anonymous buyer | Sotheby's, New York | ||
| $146 + | $105 + (¥10,300) | Anna's Light | Barnett Newman | 1968 | October 4, 2013 | DIC Corp. | Private sale | |||
| $145 | $105 | Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) | Andy Warhol | 1963 | November 13, 2013 | Sotheby's, New York | ||||
| $145 | $110 | Untitled | Jean-Michel Basquiat | 1982 | May 18, 2017 | Emily and Jerry Spiegel | Yusaku Maezawa | Sotheby's, New York | ||
| $141 | $71 | Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe | | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | November 19, 1998 | 5 | Jacques Koerfer heirs | Christie's, New York | |
| $139 | $110 | Meules | | Claude Monet | 1890 | May 14, 2019 | Hasso Plattner | Sotheby's, New York | ||
| $139 | $117 | Verger avec cyprès | | Vincent van Gogh | 1888 | November 9, 2022 | 3 | Paul G. Allen | Christie's, New York | |
| $138 | $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 | |
| $137 | $76 (£49 ) | Massacre of the Innocents | | Peter Paul Rubens | 1611 | July 10, 2002 | 6 | an Austrian family | Kenneth Thomson | Sotheby's, London |
| $129 | $95 | Nurse | Roy Lichtenstein | 1964 | November 9, 2015 | Christie's, New York |
| Price | Painting | Image | Artist | Year | Date of sale | Seller | Buyer | Auction house |
| $0 million | Magdalen in the Desert | | Antonio da Correggio | 1746 | Augustus III of Poland | Private sale | ||
| $0 million (110,000 French francs) | Sistine Madonna | | Raphael | c. 1513–1514 | 1759 | Piacenza | Augustus III of Poland | Private sale |
| $0 million (£16,000) | Adoration of the Mystic Lamb | | Hubert and Jan van Eyck | 1432 | 1821 | Edward Solly | Frederick William III of Prussia | Private sale |
| $0 million (615,300 French francs) | The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables | | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | c. 1678 | 1852 | Jean-de-Dieu Soult | Louvre, Paris | Paris |
| $0 million (£70,000) | Ansidei Madonna | | Raphael | 1505–1507 | 1885 | George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough | National Gallery, London | Private sale |
| $0 million | Colonna Altarpiece | | Raphael | c. 1503-1505 | 1901 | Charles Sedelmeyer | J. P. Morgan | Private sale |
| $0 million | Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo | | Anthony van Dyck | c. 1623 | 1906 | Knoedler | Peter Arrell Browne Widener | Private sale |
| $0 million | The Mill | | Rembrandt | 1645/48 | 1911 | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne | Peter Arrell Browne Widener | Private sale |
| $0 million | Small Cowper Madonna | | Raphael | c. 1504–1505 | 1913 | Joseph Joel Duveen | Peter Arrell Browne Widener | Private sale |
| $1 million | Benois Madonna | | Leonardo da Vinci | c. 1478–1480 | 1914 | Benois family | Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia | Private sale |
| $2 million | Study of a Young Woman | | Johannes Vermeer | c. 1665-1667 | 1959 | Prince d'Arenberg | Charles Wrightsman | Private sale |
| $2 million | Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer | | Rembrandt | 1653 | November 15, 1961 | Estate of Mrs Alfred Erickson | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | Parke-Bernet, New York |
| $5-$6 million | Ginevra de' Benci | | Leonardo da Vinci | c. 1474–1478 | February 1967 | Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D . | Private sale |
| $5 million (£2 million) | Portrait of Juan de Pareja | | Diego Velázquez | c. 1650 | November 27, 1970 | Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | Christie's, London |
| $6 million | Juliet and her Nurse | J. M. W. Turner | 1836 | May 29, 1980 | Trustees of Whitney Museum | María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat | Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York | |
| $10 million (£7 million) | Seascape: Folkestone | J. M. W. Turner | c. 1845 | July 5, 1984 | Estate of Kenneth Clark | Unknown | Sotheby's, London | |
| $10 million | Adoration of the Magi | | Andrea Mantegna | 1462 | April 18, 1985 | Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton | J. Paul Getty Museum | Christie's, New York |
| $39 million (£24 million) | Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | March 30, 1987 | Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty | Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp./Sompo Holdings | Christie's, London |
| $53 million | Irises | | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | November 11, 1987 | John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson | Alan Bond | Sotheby's, New York |
| $58 million plus exchange of works | Portrait of Joseph Roulin | | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | August 1, 1989 | Private collection, Zürich | Museum of Modern Art New York | Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich |
| $82 million | Portrait of Dr. Gachet | | Vincent van Gogh | 1890 | May 15, 1990 | Siegfried Kramarsky heirs | Ryoei Saito | Christie's, New York |
| $104 million | Garçon à la pipe | | Pablo Picasso | 1905 | May 5, 2004 | Greentree Foundation (Whitney family) | Guido Barilla (suspected) | Sotheby's, New York |
| $135 million | Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | | Gustav Klimt | 1907 | June 18, 2006 | Maria Altmann | Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie | Private sale via Christie's |
| $140 million | No. 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | November 2, 2006 | David Geffen | David Martinez | Private sale via Sotheby's | |
| $250 million+ | The Card Players | | Paul Cézanne | 1892/93 | April 2011 | George Embiricos | State of Qatar | Private sale |
| ~$300 million | Interchange | | Willem de Kooning | 1955 | September 2015 | David Geffen Foundation | Kenneth C. Griffin | Private sale |
| $450 million | Salvator Mundi | | Leonardo da Vinci | c. 1500 | November 15, 2017 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud | Christie's, New York |