Doing research for a class project, I came across this article about a Titian painting that just sold at Sotheby's for $16.9 million dollars. And so - I began to research paintings that have sold for the highest prices in the past...
It seems there is discrepancies between each list I found (some adjust the prices according to inflation, and perhaps some were just in need of an update), but these paintings were close to the top on all the lists I found:
1.
No. 5, 1948
Jackson Pollock
$140 million
2.
Woman III
Willem de Kooning
$137.5 million
3. (my personal favorite on the list!)
Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustave Klimt
$135 million
4.
Boy with a Pipe
Pablo Picasso
$104 million
5.
Portrait du Dr. Gachet
Vincent Van Gogh
$82.5 million
6.
August Renior
$78.1 million
I wonder what intrigued people about these paintings? Is there one universal thing that we are all drawn to in art? For me - I am intrigued by a personal connection with the art. I love to buy art from my friends, or art that expresses a feeling I relate to. I wonder why these paintings were purchased; what the personal connections to these paintings were, or if they were bought just for their historical significance? Hmmm...
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