The 5 most expensive paintings of all time, the 1st place is true to every detail but controversial
1. Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci ($450.3 million)
The painting “Salvator Mundi” by Leonardo da Vinci, lost in the 18th century, depicts Jesus holding a glass ball in his hand. After being discovered and identified, the painting quickly increased in price to more than 450 million USD and became the only da Vinci work owned by an anonymous private collector after an auction. .
However, it is surprising that this world’s most expensive painting is entangled in controversy when many people think that this is actually just a painting. a fake picture by the detail of the glass sphere which is quite absurd compared to the optics. Although no one has been able to confirm whether this painting is exactly real or fake, many people still believe that it is genuine despite all negative speculations.
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci
2. Nafea Faa Ipoipo? (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin and Interchange by Willem Kooning ($300 million)
The painting “Nafea Faa Ipoipo” was painted by Paul Gauguin in 1892 in Polynesia (France) while “Interchange” by Willem Kooning. These two paintings both come in at number two because both sold to individual collectors for $300 million.
It is widely reported that the Qatari royal family is the owner of the Nafea Faa Ipoipo painting, and the owner of Interchange has been identified as billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who owns many other expensive paintings.
Nafea Faa Ipoipo – Paul Gauguin
Interchange – Willem Kooning
3. The Card Players by Paul Cézanne ($250 million)
The Card Players are a group of oil paintings painted by the French artist Paul Cézanne in the post-expression era. This work was composed in the early 1890s and also in the last years of the artist’s life.
There are a total of 5 versions of “Card Player”, mEach version is different from each other in terms of size and number of players. Each painting in the group is kept in turn at the Musée d’Orsay, the Courtauld in London, the MET in New York, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and a version by the Greek grandfather George Embiricos before being sold again for $250 million. la for the royal family of Qatar.
Paul Cezanne’s Card Players
4. FEMALE°17A by Jackson Pollock (200 million USD)
The father of abstract painting, Jackson Pollock is best known for his drift painting technique (using buckets of paint to bounce off an upright painting) that he used heavily between 1947 and 1950.
Pollock used plywood and synthetic resin paint to complete this painting. The brown, gray, white and yellow colors combined in the picture make many people think that this is a bird’s nest. Along with the painting “Interchange” by Willem Kooning mentioned above, this painting was also bought by billionaire Ken Griffin in 2016 for $202 million.
Jackson Pollock’s N°17A
5. N°6 (Violet, Green and Red) by Mark Rothk (1$86 million)
Painted in 1951 by Mark Rothko, bThis painting is painted with oil paint with three colors purple, blue, red arranged vertically to give the viewer a feeling of life and spirituality.
It is known that this three-color painting was purchased for $ 186 million by Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014. through the Swiss dealer, Bouvier.
N°6 (Violet, Green and Red) by Mark Rothko
Source: Architectural Digest
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