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The World's Most Expensive Paintings

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Many famous paintings don't have a price tag. They hang in museums and are simply priceless. However, from time to time, some of them change hands either at auctions or in private sales. Before you are the most expensive paintings in history, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Do you think they are good value for money?

20. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) - $105.4 million

Artist: Andy Warhol

Year Sold: 2013

19. Anna's Light - $105.7 million

Artist: Barnett Newman

Year Sold: 2013

18. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust - $106.5 million

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Year Sold: 2010

17. Flag - $110 million

Artist: Jasper Johns

Year Sold: 2010

16. Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion - $118 million

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani

Year Sold: 2012

15. The Scream - $119.9 million

Artist: Edvard Munch

Year Sold: 2012

14. Salvator Mundi - $127.5 million

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Year Sold: 2013

13. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - $135 million

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Year Sold: 2006

12. Woman III - $137.5 million

Artist: Willem de Kooning

Year Sold: 2013

11. No.5, 1948 - $140 million

Artist: Jackson Pollock

Year Sold: 2006

10. Three Studies of Lucian Freud - $142.4 million

Artist: Francis Bacon

Year Sold: 2013

9. Le Rêve - $155 million

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Year Sold: 2013

8. Nu Couché - $170.4 million

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani

Year Sold: 2015

7. Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O") - $179.4 million

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Year Sold: 2015

6. Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit - $ 180 million for the pair

Artist: Rembrandt

Year Sold: 2015

5. No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) - $186 million

Artist: Mark Rothko

Year Sold: 2014

4. Number 17A - $200 million

Artist: Jackson Pollock

Year Sold: 2015

3. The Card Players - $259 million

Artist: Paul Cézanne

Year Sold: 2011

2. Nafea Faa Ipoipo - $300 million

Artist: Paul Gauguin

Year Sold: 2015

1. Interchange - $300 million

Artist: Willem de Kooning

Year Sold: 2015

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