Top 5 Expensive paintings in 2015
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There are numerous people in the world who love the artist’s creations and want to own these by paying some amount of money which has been settled by artist itself. Here we have listed below the top most expensive paintings in the world.
Here we go with the different expensive paintings of 2015:
- ) The Scream-US $ 119.9 million
Edvard Munch one of most popular paintings The Scream, one of four compositions has been hold by National Gallery, Oslo, while three other version didn’t travelled yet, present in Munch Museum since 1893. On 2 May 2012 the fourth version was sold at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction to financier Leon Black considered as the second highest nominal price paid for a painting, also added in list of most expensive painting in the world with price of $ 119.9 million.
2.) Adele Bloch Bauer I- US$ 135 Million
Painting by Gustav Klimt in 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, who is art-loving Viennese salon lady, a fan and close friend of Gustav Klimt, is the final and entirely representative art of his golden phase. After family settlement the artistic creation has been sold for US$135 million for Neue Galerie to Ronald Lauder in June 2006. It is most expensive painting at that time while also top most expensive paintings in the world and has been on display at the gallery since July 2006.
3.) Pablo Picasso, Buste de Femme (Femme à la Résille), 1938 $67.4 Million
A portrait of Dora Maar, the artist’s lover and photographer, Buste de Femme became the third most expensive lot in Christie’s “Looking Forward to the Past” auction, which featured works spanning from 1902 to 2011. Consigned by casino magnate Steve Wynn and given a guarantee by the auction house, the piece exceeded its presale high estimate of $55 million.
4.) Andy Warhol, Colored Mona Lisa, 1963 $ 56.2 million
This silkscreen work was sold to Larry Gagosian at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale in May. The piece features the image of the Mona Lisa, taken from a brochure, which Warhol adapted with his trademark Pop Art style, using colors associated with the commercial printing process. Always market savvy, Warhol created the piece to capitalize on the hype surrounding the first time the real Mona Lisa (1503–1506) was loaned to a foreign nation (it was put on display in the United States in January, 1963).
5.) Roy Lichtenstein, Nurse, 1964 $ 95.4 million
Despite the lack of a speech or thought bubble, which often hike up the price of Lichtenstein’s work, Nurse sold for $95.4 million, smashing the Pop artist’s auction record from 2013, when Woman with Flowered Hat(1963) brought in $56.1 million. Part of the “The Artist’s Muse” sale,Nurse was inspired by an image from a ’60s comic book and last appeared at auction in 1995, when it sold for $1.7 million. Described by Christie’s as “a quintessential Lichtenstein heroine,” the female subject is the ultimate femme fatale, with striking features highlighted by Ben-Day dots.