Ever got angry watching the 4 year old at your home draw on the walls? We bet this article would work as an anger management course for you. Here’s presenting to you the 3 most expensive paintings in the world. Hope you’d like it!
Rank No: 3Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (painted in 1907) By Mr. Gustav Klimt
Cost: US$ 135 Million
Klimt took almost a year to complete this painting, and it is made of oil and gold on canvas. This painting belongs to the Jugendstil Style. The Painting was commissioned by a wealthy sugar baron, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, and the model used for the painting is his wife. This painting is also a subject of 3 documentary films.
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Year: 1907
Type: Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Dimensions: 138 cm × 138 cm (54 in × 54 in)
Location: Neue Galerie
Woman III (painted in 1953) By Mr. Willem de Kooning
Cost: US$ 137.5 Million
Woman III is the most expensive Abstract Expressionist art. It is a part of a series of 6 paintings by the same painter. It was once famously a part of the Tehran Museum of contemporary art, which was traded by the curators post the revolution in a quiet trade on the tarmac of the Vienna airport, in return of the reminder of a 16th century Persian manuscript, Tehmasbi Shanameh which basically is about the accession of Shah Tahmasp of Persia to the throne.
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Year: 1953
Type: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 172.7 cm × 123.2 cm (68 in × 48.5 in)
No. 5 (painted in 1948) By Mr. Jackson Pollock
Cost: US$ 140 Million
According to a report in the New York Times dated, 2nd of November, 2006, the painting was sold in a private auction for a whopping $140 Million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold in the world. Many still wonder the reason for its high cost!
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Year: 1948
Type: Oil on fibreboard
Dimensions: 243.8 cm × 121.9 cm (96 in × 48 in)
Location: Private collection
Date of Sale: 26th November, 2002.
Source : The New York Times|Wikipedia
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