Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings in The World 2018

10. Nude, Green leaves and the Bust(Price $106.5 million):

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades.









9. Flag (Price $110 million)

Flag is an encaustic painting by the American artist Jasper Johns. Created when Johns was 24 (1954–55), two years after he was discharged from the US Army, this painting was the first of many works that Johns has said were inspired by a dream of the U.S. flag in 1954. It is arguably the painting for which Johns is best known.








8. The Scream (Price $119.9 million)

The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The German title Munch gave these works is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The works show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time.









7. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Price $ 135 million)

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Jewish banker and sugar producer.It is made of oil and gold on the canvas and took 3 years for Gustav to complete it. Seventh of the most expensive paintings, this shows elaboration of ornamentation and its complexity that is seen in Jugendstil style.








6. Woman III (Price $137.5 million)

Woman III is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Woman III is one of a series of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme was a woman.As the painter expressed, this painting came out from his personal painful experiences as a struggling art form. The woman has been used to symbolize perfection with purity. It is certainly one of those most expensive paintings in the world that made a great trade.








5. No. 5, 1948 (Price $140 million)

No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement.Created on fibre board using liquid paints, brown, grey, yellow and white, colours seemed to drizzle in manner that looked more like a dense bird’s nest but was actually an extreme war scenario. Sold at $140 million price, this is one of the world’s most expensive paintings.








4. Three studies of Lucian Freud (Price $142.4 million)

Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud.There are three panes that depict Freud in three typical positions and isolated styles. Besides being a superb painter, Bacon is also a wonderful writer.








3. Le Reve (Price $148.4 million)

Le Rêve is a 1932 oil painting by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932.Among the most expensive paintings, it has contrasted colours and oversimplified outlines that resembles early Fauvism.








2. The Card Players (Price $259 millions)

The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series.The Cards players evidently stands among the list of most expensive paintings in 2016-2017.








1. Will you marry me? (Price $300 million)

When Will You Marry? is an oil painting from 1892 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. On loan to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland for nearly a half-century, it was sold privately by the family of Rudolf Staechelin to Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, in February 2015 for close to US $300 million (£197 million), one of the highest prices ever paid for a work of art. The painting was on exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, until 28 June 2015.The artist in his lifetime has hardy received any acclamation for his work but with this piece, it seems that the painter has received his right price at last, his painting being the most expensive paintings 2017.












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