Paintings & Drawings
Who holds the record for the most expensive work of art, Paintings & Drawings to go under the hammer, rather than to be sold privately?
| Sold for: USD | Painting: | Image: | Artist: | Auction house: | Sale date: | Seller: | Buyer: |
| USD 450.3 million | Salvator Mundi 1490-1519, 45x65cm oil on walnut |  |
Leonardo da Vinci | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2017 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud |
| USD 300 million | Interchange 1955 200x175cm oil on canvas |
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Willem de Kooning | Private sale | September 2015 |
David Geffen Foundation | Kenneth C. Griffin |
| USD 300 million | Nafea Faa Ipoipo? When Will You Marry? 1892 101x77cm oil on canvas |
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Paul Gauguin | Private sale | February 2015 |
Rudolf Staechelin family | State of Qatar |
| USD 259+ million | The Card Players 1892-1893 97x130cm oil on canvas |
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Paul Cézanne | Private sale | April 2011 |
George Embiricos | Royal Family of Qatar |
| USD 200 million | Number 17A 1949 56x72cm oil on fiberboard |
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Jackson Pollock | Private sale | September 2015 | David Geffen Foundation | Kenneth C. Griffin |
| USD 186 million. (€140 million) | No. 6 'Violet, Green and Red' 1951 oil on canvas |
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Mark Rothko | Private sale via Yves Bouvier | August 2014 | Cherise Moueix | Dmitry Rybolovlev |
| USD 180 million. (€160 million) | Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit 1634 |  |
Rembrandt van Rijn | Private sale | September 2015 | Éric de Rothschild | Rijksmuseum Louvre |
| USD 179.4 million | Les Femmes d'Alger. Women of Algiers. 'Version O' 1955 114x146cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York. | May 11, 2015 | Private collection | Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Doha, Qatar |
| USD 170.4 million | Nu Couché. Red Nude. Reclining Nude 1917-1918 60x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Amedeo Modigliani | Christie's, New York | November 9, 2015 | Laura Mattioli Rossi | Liu Yiqian |
| USD 165.0 million | Masterpiece 1962 137x137cm |  |
Roy Lichtenstein | Private sale | January 2017 | Agnes Gund | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 155.0 million | Le Rêve. The Dream 1932 130x97cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | 26 March 2013 | Private sale | Steve Wynn | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 150.0 million | Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912 190x120cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Private sale via Larry Gagosian | Summer of 2016 | Oprah Winfrey | Unidentified buyer in China |
| USD 142.4 million | Three Studies of Lucian Freud 1969. 198x147cm for each canvas; oil on canvas |  |
Francis Bacon | Christie's, New York | 12 November 2013 | Anonymous owner | Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn |
| USD 140 million | No. 5, 1948 240x120cm oil on fiberboard |  |
Jackson Pollock | Private sale via Sotheby's | November 2, 2006 | David Geffen | David Martinez |
| USD 137.5 million | Woman III 1953 172x123cm oil on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Private sale via Larry Gagosian | November 18, 2006 | David Geffen | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 135.0 million | Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907 138x138cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | 18 June 2006 | Private sale via Christie's | Maria Altmann | Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie |
| USD 119.9 million | The Scream 1895, 91x73cm pastel and crayon on cardboard |  |
Edvard Munch | Sotheby's, New York | 2 May 2012 | Petter Olsen | Leon Black |
| USD 118.0 million | Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion 1917, 60x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Amedeo Modigliani | 2012 | Private sale via Yves Bouvier | Steven A. Cohen | Dmitry Rybolovlev |
| USD 110.5 million | UNTITLED 1982 183x173cm acrylic, spray paint and oilstick on canvas |  |
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sotheby’s New York | 18 May 2017 | Steven A. Cohen | Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese internet fashion billionaire |
| USD 110.0 million | Flag 1954, 107x153cm encaustic, oil paint, and newsprint collage on three separate canvases, mounted on a plywood board |  |
Jasper Johns | Private sale, estimated price | March 2010 | Jean-Christophe Castelli | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 106.5 million | Nude, Green Leaves and Bust 1932, 162x130cm |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 4 May 2010 | Frances Lasker Brody estate | Leonard Blavatnik |
| USD 105.7 million (price excludes sales commission and other costs) | Anna's Light 1968, 274x609cm acrylic on canvas |  |
Barnett Newman | Private sale | 4 October 2013 | DIC Corporation | Anonymous owner |
| USD 105.4 million | Silver Car Crash. Double Disaster 1963, 267x417cm silkscreen ink and silver spray paint on canvas, in two parts |  |
Andy Warhol | Sotheby's, New York | 13 November 2013 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 104.2 million | Garçon à la pipe. Boy with a Pipe 1905. 100x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby's, New York | 4 May 2004 | Greentree foundation, Whitney family | Barilla Group |
| USD 100.0 million | Eight Elvises 1963, 200x370cm silkscreen on canvas |  |
Andy Warhol | Private sale via Philippe Ségalot | October 2008 | Annibale Berlingieri | Possibly the State of Qatar |
| USD 100.0 million | La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir 1904, 65x80cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Cézanne | Private sale | 2013 | Edsel and Eleanor Ford House | State of Qatar |
| USD 95.4 million | Nurse 1964, 121x121cm oil and Magna on canvas |  |
Roy Lichtenstein | Christie's, New York | 9 November 2015 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 95.2 million | Dora Maar au Chat. Dora Maar with Cat 1941 |  |
Dora Maar au Chat. Dora Maar with Cat 1941 | Sotheby's, New York | 3 May 2006 | Gidwitz family | Boris Ivanishvili |
| USD 86.9 million | Orange, Red, Yellow 1961, 236x206cm acrylic on canvas |  |
Mark Rothko | Christie's, New York | 8 May 2012 | Estate of David Pincus | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 86.3 million | Triptych 1976, 198x147cm each canvas |  |
Francis Bacon | Sotheby's, New York | 14 May 2008 | Moueix family | Roman Abramovich |
| USD 84.2 million | Barnett Newman - Black Fire I 1961, 289x213cm |  |
Barnett Newman | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2014 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 82.5 million | Portrait of Dr. Gachet 1890 67x56cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 15 May 1990 | Siegfried Kramarsky family | Ryoei Saito |
| USD 81.9 million | Triple Elvis 1963, 208x175cm silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen |  |
Andy Warhol | Christie's, New York | 12 November 2014 | West Spiel | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 81.9 million | No. 10 1958, 239x175cm oil on canvas |  |
Mark Rothko | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2015 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 81.4 million | Meule. Grainstack 1891, 72x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, New York | 16 November 2016 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 80.8 million | Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards 1984, oil on canvas, in three parts each: 198x148cm |  |
Francis Bacon | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2014 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 80.5 million | Le Bassin aux Nymphéas. Water Lily Pond 1919, 100x200cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, London | 24 June 2008 | J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller | Arts & Management International Ltd. for Private Collector |
| USD 80.0 million | Turquoise Marilyn 1964, 101x101cm acrylic and silkscreen |  |
Andy Warhol | Private sale via Larry Gagosian | 20 May 2007 | Stefan Edlis | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 80.0 million | False Start 1959, 170x132cm oil on canvas |  |
Jasper Johns | Private sale via Richard Gray | 12 October 2006 | David Geffen | Kenneth C. Griffin |
| USD 78.1 million | Bal du moulin de la Galette 1876. 78x114cm oil on canvas |  |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Sotheby's, New York | 17 May 1990 | Betsey Whitney | Ryoei Saito |
| USD 76.7 million | Massacre of the Innocents 1611, 142x182cm oil on canvas |  |
Peter Paul Rubens | Sotheby's in London | 10 July 2002 | an Austrian family | Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson |
| USD 75.1 million | No 1. Royal Red and Blue 1954, 288x171cm oil on cavas |  |
Mark Rothko | Sotheby's, New York | 13 November 2012 | John and Anne Marion | Anonymous buyer |
| USD ~75.0 million | Darmstadt Madonna 1526, 146x102cm oil/wood |  |
Hans Holbein | Private sale via Christoph Graf Douglas | 12 July 2011 | Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse | Reinhold Würth |
| USD 72.8 million | White Center; Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose 1950, 205141cm oil on canvas |  |
Mark Rothko | Sotheby's, New York | 15 May 2007 | David Rockefeller, Sr. | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani |
| USD 71.7 million | Green Car Crash. Green Burning Car I 1963, 228x203cm synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen |  |
Andy Warhol | Christie's, New York | 16 May 2007 | Private collection, Zürich | Philip Niarchos |
| USD 71.7 million | Diana and Callisto 1556-1559б 187x204cm oil on canvas |  |
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio) | Private sale | 2 March 2012 | Duke of Sutherland | National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London |
| USD 71.5 million | Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe. Self-portrait without beard 1889, 40x31cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 19 November 1998 | Heirs of Jacques Koerfer | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 70.6 million | Diana and Actaeon 1556-1559, 185x202cm oil on canvas |  |
Titian | Private sale | 1 February 2009 | Duke of Sutherland | National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London |
| USD 70.5 million | Untitled. New York City 1968, 172x228cm oil based house paint and wax crayon on canvas |  |
Cy Twombly | Sotheby's, New York | 11 November 2015 | Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Irmas, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 70.0 million | Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page 1533, oil on canvas 110x80cm |  |
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio) | Private sale via Didier Aaron | November 2003 | AXA Oeuvres d'Art (Paris, France) insurance company | J. Paul Getty Museum |
| USD 69.6 million | Untitled 1970, 155x190cm oil based house paint and wax crayon on canva |  |
Cy Twombly | Christie's, New York | 12 November 2014 | Nicola del Roscio | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 69.6 million | Four Marlons 1966, 205x165cm silkscreen ink on unprimed linen |  |
Four Marlons 1966 | Christie's, New York | 12 November 2014 | WestSpiel | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 69.0 million | Nude Sitting on a Divan. The Beautiful Roman Woman 1917, 100x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Amedeo Modigliani | Sotheby's, New York | 2 November 2010 | Halit Cıngıllıoglu | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 68.0 million | Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross. The Gross Clinic 1875, 243x198cm oil on canvas |  |
Thomas Eakins | Private sale | 12 April 2007 | Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| USD 67.45 million | La Gommeuse 1901, 81x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby's, New York | 5 November 2015 | William I. Koch | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 67.4 million | Buste de femme. Femme à la résille 1938, 65x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 11 May 2015 | Steve Wynn | Joseph Lau |
| USD 66.3 million | L’Allée des Alyscamps. Les Alyscamps 1888, 92x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Sotheby's, New York | 5 May 2015 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 66.3 million | Willem de Kooning - Untitled XXV 1977, 195x223cm oil on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 66.2 million | Untitled 1952, 261x158cm oil on canvas |  |
Mark Rothko | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2014 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 65.5 million | Eagle Standing on Pine Tree 1946, 246x61cm hanging scroll, ink on pape |  |
Qi Baishi | China Guardian Auctions | 22 May 2011 | Liu Yiqian | Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co |
| USD 65.1 million | Spring. Le Printemps 1881, 74x51cm oil on canvas |  |
Édouard Manet | Christie's, New York | 5 November 2014 | Anonymous owner | The J. Paul Getty Museum |
| USD 63.5 million | Police Gazette 1955, 108x125cm oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Private sale via Richard Gray | 12 October 2006 | David Geffen | Steven A. Cohen |
| USD 63.4 million | Men in Her Life 1962, 214x211cm silkscreen and pencil on primed canvas |  |
Andy Warhol | Phillips de Pury & Company | 8 November 2010 | Jose Mugrabi | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani |
| USD 62.1 million | Zhichuan Resettlement 1350, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper |  |
Wang Meng | Beijing Poly Auction | 4 June 2011 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 60.5 million | Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier 1894, 60x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Cézanne | Sotheby's, New York | 10 May 1999 | Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 60.0 million | Suprematist Composition 1916, 88x71cm oil on canvas |  |
Kazimir Malevich | Sotheby's, New York | 3 November 2008 | Heirs of Kazimir Malevich | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 59.0(GBP 47.97) million | Bauerngarten.Blumengarten 1907, 110x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 1 March 2017 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 58.36 million | Number 19, 1948, 78x57cm oil on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2013 | Private Collection, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 58.0 million plus exchange of works | Portrait of Joseph Roulin 1889 64x55cm |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich | 1 August 1989 | Private collection, Zürich | Museum of Modern Art New York |
| USD 57.0 million | A Wheatfield with Cypresses 1889, 73x93cm oilon canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Private sale via Steven Mazoh | May 1993 | Dieter Bührle, son of Emil Georg Bührle | Walter H. Annenberg |
| USD 55.0 million | Woman with Folded Arms. Femme aux Bras Croisés 1902, 81x58cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 8 November 2000 | Family of Chauncey McCormick, Chicago | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 54.07 million | Nymphéas 1906, 88x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 23 June 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 54.01 million | Nymphéas 1905, 81x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 53.9 million | Irises 1889 71x93cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Sotheby's, New York | 11 November 1987 | son of Joan Whitney Payson | Alan Bond |
| GBP 49.82 million |
Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée, Marie-Thérèse Walter 1937; 55x46cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 49.5 million | Femme assise dans un jardin. Woman sitting in a garden 1938, 131x97cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby's, New York | 10 November 1999 | Robert Saidenberg | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 49.3 million | Les Noces de Pierrette. The marriage of Pierrette 1905, 115x195cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Binoche et Godeau Paris | 30 November 1989 | Fredrik Roos | Tomonori Tsurumaki |
| USD 48.96 million | Chen Rong (13TH CENTURY) AS CATALOGUED IN SHIQU BAOJI - Six Dragons, Painting: 34x440cm; Calligraphy: 35x82cm |  |
Chen Rong | Christie's, New York | 15 March 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 47.8 million | Yo, Picasso. Self Portrait 1901, 73x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby's, New York | 9 May 1989 | Wendell Cherry | Stavros Niarchos |
| USD 47.5 million | Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat 1890, 92x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York | 1997 | Anonymous owner | Steve Wynn |
| USD 46.0 million | Landscape in Red 1964, 131x84cm mounted Ink and Color on Paper |  |
Li Keran | Beijing Poly international Auction | 4 June 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 45.95 million | Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose 1911, 81x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Henri Matisse | Christie's, Paris | 23 - 25 February 2009 | Private Collection, Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 45.0 million | Femme assise, robe bleue. Seated Woman in Blue Dress 1939 73x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 44.65 million | Femme écrivant. Marie-Thérèse 1934, 80x64cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, London | 27 June 2017 | Lefevre Fine Art Ltd, London | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 44.0 million | Five Drunken Kings on Horses 1255-1327, 2-metre-long hand scroll |  |
Ren Renfa | Beijing Poly Auction | 4 December 2016 | Walter Hochstadter family | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 43.76 million | Nymphéas 1905, 88x99cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, New York | 7 November 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 43.2 million | Church in Cassone. Landscape with Cypress 1913, 110x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2010 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 40.7 million | At the Lapin Agile. Au Lapin Agile 1904, 99x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby's, New York | 27 November 1989 | Daughter of Joan Whitney Payson | Walter H. Annenberg |
| USD 40.4 million | Litzlberg am Attersee 1914-1915, 110x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2011 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 40.33 million | Gustav Klimt - Birch Forest 1903, 110x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Christie's, New York | 8 November 2006 | Heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 40.33 million | L'Arlésienne, Madame Ginoux 1890, 65x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 2 May 2006 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 39.7 million | Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers 1888, 100x76cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 30 March 1987 | Helen Beatty, daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty | Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp. |
| USD 38.9 (GBP 24.78) million | Portrait of Gertrud Loew 1902, 149x45cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 24 June 2015 | Klimt Foundation & The Heirs of Gertha Felsőványi | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 38.5 million | Acrobat and Young Harlequin. Acrobate et jeune arlequin 1905, gouache on cardboard |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, London | 28 November 1988 | Heir of Roger Janssen | Mitsukoshi |
| USD 36.72 million | Nympheas 1904, 81x100cm pol on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 19 June 2007 | Private Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 36.0 million | Flag 1983, 29x44cm encaustic on silk flag on canvas |  |
Jasper Johns | Sotheby's New York | 11 November 2014 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 35.56 million | Le Grand Canal 1908, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2015 | Private Collection, Japan | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 35.52 million | Waterloo Bridge, temps couvert 1904, 65x99cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, London | 18 June 2007 | Private collection, Japan | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 35.2 million | Portrait of a Halberdier 1537, 92x72cm oil on panel transferred to canvas |  |
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci, Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo) | Christie's, New York | 31 May 1989 | Chauncey Stillman | The J. Paul Getty Museum |
| USD 35.03 million | God of Cloud and Great Lord of Fate 1954, 114x315cm ink and color on paper |  |
Fu Baoshi | Poly International Auction, Beijing | 4 June 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 34.98 million | The Lock 1819-1825, 142x120cm oil on canvas |  |
John Constable | Christie's, London | 3 July 2012 | Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 34.64 million | Peach Blossom Spring 1982, 209x92cm splashed ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll |  |
Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien) | Sotheby’s, Hong Kong | 05 April 2016 | Robert H. Ellsworth Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 34.06 million | Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi 1712-1793, 119x204cm oil on canvas |  |
Francesco Guardi | Christie's, London | 6 July 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 33.85 million | Nymphéas 1908, 100x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 November 2015 | Private Collection, United States. | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 33.76 million | Alice Hoschedé au jardin 1881, 81x65cm il on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2014 | Contemporary Art, Inc., New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 33.64 million | L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue 1937, 60x49cm oil on canvas |  |
Henri Matisse | Christie's, New York | 6 November 2007 | Heirs of Paul Rosenberg | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 32.72 million | Portrait of a man with arms akimbo 1658, 107x87cm oil on canvas |  |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Christie's, London | 8 December 2009 | Private Collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 32.64 million | Number 16, 1949, 78x56cm oil on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 12 November 2013 | Private Collection, Philadelphia | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 31.3 million | Houses at Unterach on the Attersee 1916, 110x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Christie's, New York | 8 November 2006 | Heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 31.03 million | Le moissonneur (d’après Millet) 1889, 43x24cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 27 June 2017 | Private collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 30.82 million | Le Palais Contarini 1908, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 19 June 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 30.47 million | Femme assise dans un fauteuil 1917-1920, 130x88cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Mrs. Sydell Miller | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 30.05 million | Apple Tree I 1912, 109x110cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Christie's, New York | 8 November 2006 | Heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 28.28 million | Painting Album of Landscapes, by Qi Baishi 1931 |  |
Qi Baishi | Poly International Auction, Beijing | 4 December 2016 | Private Collection | Powerlong Real Estate Holdings |
| USD 27.63 million | Frauenbildnis. Portrait of Ria Munk III 1917-1918, 180x128cm oil and charcoal on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Christie's, London | 23 June 2010 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 25.36 million | Te Fare. La maison 1892, 76x91cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 28 February 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 24.72 million | Le bassin aux nymphéas 1917-1919, 97x198cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 23.09 million | Le Palais ducal 1908, 57x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 23.04 million | Number 28, 1951, 76x137cm oil on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 8 May 2012 | Harold and Hester Diamond, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 22.94 million |
Le matador 1970; 146x114cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 22.64 million | Buste de femme. Dora Maar 1938, 45x40cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 16 November 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 20.41 million | Bassin aux nymphéas, les rosiers 1913, 73x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 20.32 million | Sous les peupliers 1887, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2014 | J. Barry Donahue Fine Arts, Inc., Litchfield | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 18.39 million | Homme à la pipe 1969, 195x129cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 16 November 2016 | Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 16.79 million | Venice, the Bacino di San Marco, with the Piazzetta and the Doge’s Palace 1765, 65x102cm oil on canvaS |  |
Francesco Guardi | Christie's, London | 8 July 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 16.66 million | Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur 1908, 65x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2016 | Private Collection, Switzerland | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 16.28 million | Tête de femme. Dora Maar 1941, 41x33cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 6 November 2007 | Private Collection, Lydia Winston Malbin, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 16.21 million | Les Peupliers à Giverny 1887, 74x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2015 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 16.12 million | Glaçons, effet blanc 1893, 65x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 06 November 2013 | Duhamel Fine Arts, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.99 million | Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy 1889, 45x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent Van Gogh | Christie's, London | 7 February 2012 | Heirs of Elizabeth Taylor | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.98 million | Le Bassin aux nymphéas 1917-1920, 97x129cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 16 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.84 million | Le Pont japonais 1918-1924, 90x116cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2014 | Wildenstein Gallery, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.37 million | L'Embarcadère 1871, 54x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2015 | Jamie Ortiz-Patiño, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.2 million | Effet de printemps à Giverny 1890, 60x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2010 | Private Collection, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.1 million |
Bateaux à Collioure 1905; 38x46cm oil on canvas |  |
André Derain | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 15.06 million | La Plage à Trouville 1870, 48x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 25 June 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 14.70 million | La tasse de thé 1921, 91x64cm oil on canvas |  |
Fernand Leger | Christie's, Paris | 23 - 25 February 2009 | Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 14.55 million | La Seine à Argenteuil 1875, 59x79cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 23 June 2014 | The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 14.16 million | Nympheas Avec Reflets De Hautes Herbes 1914-1917, 130x200cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.81 million | Le Givre à Giverny 1885, 54x71cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.60 million | Jeune homme à la fleur 1891, 45x33cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 9 November 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.50 million | Antibes, vue du plateau Notre-Dame 1888, 65x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 23 June 2014 | Private Collection, USA | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.35 million | Chrysanthemums in a Glass Vase 1950s, 91x125cm oil on masonite |  |
Sanyu (San Yu or Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 26 November 2016 | Levy Family Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.23 million | Parc de l'hôpital Saint-Paul 1889, 66x51cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 23 June 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.18 million | Antibes vue de la Salis 1888, 65x91cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.15 million | A man in a gorget and cap 1627, 39x29cm oil on canvas |  |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Christie's, London | 3 July 2012, | Pieter and Olga Dreesmann | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 13.07 million | L'Entrée de Giverny en hiver 1885, 65x85cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 08 February 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 12.59 million |
Testa + luce + ambiente 1912; 60x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Umberto Boccioni | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 12.36 million | Nature morte aux fruits et piments 1892, 31x66cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 6 November 2007 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 12.12 million | Champ de blé 1881, 65x82cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 08 November 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 11.65 million | Number 12, 1949, 78x57cm oil on paper laid down on masonite |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 11 May 2004 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 11.45 million | La Seine à Vétheuil 1901, 81x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 11.36 million | Number 5, 1951 'Elegant Lady', 147x140cm oil on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2014 | Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 11.20 million | Le pont de Trinquetaille 1888, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Le pont de Trinquetaille 1888 | Christie's, New York | 3 November 2004 | Akram Ojjeh, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 10.83 million | Wanluan Thatched Hall 1597, hanging scroll, ink and light colors on paper |  |
Dong Qichang | China Guardian | 15 November 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 10.55 million | Chrysanthemums in a Glass Vase 1950s, 75x92cm oil on masonite |  |
Sanyu (Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 30 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 10.40 million | Le Palais Dario 1908, 81x66cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 November 2007 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 10.40 million | Le vallon 1892, 41x67cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 21 June 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.90 million | Nymphéas 1916-1919, 200x180cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, New York | 9 May 2001 | Private Collection, USA | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.88 million | Marée basse aux Petites-Dalles 1884, 60x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 09 May 2016 | Acquavella Galleries, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.77 million | Le Pont de bois 1872, 54x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 19 June 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.64 million | Woman. Seated Woman I 1952, 58x19cm charcoal, oil and graphite on paper |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2006 | Sidney Janis Gallery, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.55 million | Flowers in a white vase 1930s, 115x88cm oil on canvas |  |
Sanyu (Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 27 May 2017 | Private Collection, Asia | Anonymous buyer |
| Estimate: USD 9.5 - 12.7 million | Seeufer Mit Birken. Lakeshore With Birches 1901, 90x90cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 08 February 2012 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.46 million | Les Quatre saisons (L'Hiver, Le Printemps, L'Eté, L'Automne) 1872, each: 55x131cm oil on canvas |  |
Camille Pissarro | Sotheby’s, London | 01 March 2017 | Private Collection, Europe | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.43 million | Camille à l'ombrelle verte 1876, 81x59cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 09 May 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.26 million | Antibes, le fort 1888, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.11 million | 03.04.60-01.02.69, 1960-1969, 195x130cm oil on canvas |  |
Zao Wou-Ki | Sotheby’s Hong Kong | 5 October 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 9.02 million | Canotiers Argenteuil 1874, 60x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's , New York | 18 November 1998 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.85 million | 10.1.68 1968, 82x117cm oil on canvas |  |
Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji) | Sotheby’s Hong Kong | 03 October 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.83 million |
Tête de femme 1963; 73x55cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.67 million | Tuilerie à Mont-roig 1918, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Joan Miró | Christie's, New York | 5 November 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.64 million | La côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise 1877, 65x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Cézanne | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.62 million | Plum Blossoms 1973, 89x70cm oil on canvas mounted on board |  |
Wu Guanzhong | Sotheby’s, Hong Kong | 04 April 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.56 million | Poirier en fleurs 1885, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2013 | Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.48 million | Cabane sous les arbres 1892, 72x43cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Sotheby’s, New York | 6 November 2002 | Otten Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.44 million | Road by Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter 1867, 49x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.44 million | Te fare Hymenee. La maison des chants 1892, 51x90cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 6 May 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.31 million | Oben und links 1925, 69x49cm oil on board |  |
Wassily Kandinsky | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.29 million | Le pont de Langlois à Arles 1888, 30x30cm watercolor, gouache, chalk, pen and ink over pencil on paper |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 4 November 2003 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 8.22 million | Sur la falaise à Pourville 1882, 60x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2014 | Private Collection, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.78 million | Église de Vernon, soleil 1894, 65x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2014 | J. Barry Donahue Fine Arts, Inc., Litchfield | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.55 million | Le Jardin de Vétheuil 1881, 59x74cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2014 | Connaught Brown, London | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.4 million | Woman in an armchair. Dame im fauteuil 1897-1898, 52x52cm oil on board |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, New York | 16 May 2017 | Anonymous owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.29 million | The Street 1956, 193x181cm oil on canvas |  |
Philip Guston | Christie's , New York | 11 May 2005 | Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.23 million | Pot de pivoines. Potted Peonies 1940s-1950s, 88x73cm oil on masonite |  |
Sanyu (Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 22 November 2014 | Private Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.14 million | L’Eglise de Vernon, temps gris 1894, 65x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 19 June 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.08 million | Près Monte-Carlo 1883, 65x82cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 09 May 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.03 million | Nature morte, vase avec oeillets 1890, 41x32cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 24 June 2003 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 7.00 million | Paysage aux troncs bleus 1892, 72x46cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 20 June 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.86 million | Potted Chrysanthemum in a Blue and White Jardinière 1950s, 123x93cm oil on masonite |  |
Sanyu (Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 27 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.85 million | Album with Ink Paintings and Calligraphy 1920s, oil on canvas |  |
Wu Changshuo | China Guardian | 15 November 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.60 million | Femmes au bord de la rivière 1891-1893, 31x40cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 9 May 2001 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.52 million | Le Saule 1885, 65x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.51 million | Femme en rouge. Woman in Red 1930s-1940s, 74x50cm oil on canvas |  |
Sanyu (Chang Yu) | Christie's, Hong Kong | 23 November 2013 | Jean-Claude Riedel, Paris, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.40 million | Femme dans un fauteuil 1956, 99x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Private Collection, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.35 million | Route de Giverny en hiver 1885, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 24 June 2009 | Private Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.24 million | La Seine à Argenteuil 1877, 60x72cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 03 May 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.24 million | Fin d'après-midi, Vétheuil 1880, 72x99cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2010 | E.V. Thaw, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.24 million | Eyes in the Heat II 1947, 60x50cm oil and aluminum paint on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 10 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.14 million | Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige 1875, 61x99cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2015 | Mr. & Mrs. David Bakalar, Boston | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 6.13 million | Iris 1914-1917, 120x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 08 November 2012 | Dickinson Gallery, London | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.80 million | Weilheim-Marienplatz 1909, 33x47cm oil on canvas |  |
Wassily Kandinsky | Christie's, London | 27 June 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.73 million | Peach Blossoms 1973, 61x46cm oil on canvas |  |
Wu Guanzhong | Sotheby’s, Hong Kong | 04 October 2015 | Estate of Huang Jixing | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.50 million | Untitled 1988, 121x81cm acrylic and Flashe on aluminum |  |
Christopher Wool | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Luhring Augustine, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.48 million | Argenteuil, fin d'après-midi 1872, 60x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 08 February 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.40 million | The Rhythm. Adam and Eve 1910, 202x293cm oil, pencil and crayon on canvas |  |
Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné | Christie's, London | 24 June 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.39 million | Untitled 1958, 194x185cm oil on canvas |  |
Joan Mitchell | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | The Mezzacappa Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.31 million | Guitare 1920, 89x116cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 5 November 2014 | Private collection, Switzerland | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.3 (GBP 4.3) million | Mädchen im Grünen. Girl in the Foliage 1896, 32x24cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 1 March 2017 | Serge Sabarsky, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.28 million | Le toit bleu or Ferme au Pouldu 1890, 71x90cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 8 May 2000 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.20 million | Entrée de Giverny en hiver, soleil couchant 1885, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, New York | 5 November 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.07 million |
Le Village bleu 1955-1959, 78x71cm oil on canvas |  |
Marc Chagall | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 5.07 million | Vétheuil 1880, 60x80cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 16 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.96 million | View from Vincent's Window 1887, 56x38cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 9 May 2007 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.95 million | Bretonne et oie au bord de l'eau 1888, 25x39cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.91 million |
Maison pour érotomane 1932; 14x18cm oil on panel |  |
Salvador Dalí | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.86 million | Automne à Jeufosse 1884, 60x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2013 | Private Collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.83 million | Etretat, falaise et Porte d'Amont, grosse mer 1883, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 24 June 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.78 million | A Pair of Shoes 1886, 37x46cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 8 December 1999 | Private Collection, Belgium | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.75 million | La route rouge près de Menton 1884, 66x82cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's , London | 23 June 2010 | Private collection, Germany | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.72 million | Route à Louveciennes, neige fondante, soleil couchant 1869-1870, 41x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | The Lefevre Gallery, London | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.64 million | Coucher de soleil à Pourville, pleine mer 1882, 54x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 06 November 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.50 million | Number 7, 1951, 63x99cm ink and gouache on Japanese paper |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.49 million | Vase de fleurs et gourde 1891, 58x72cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 2 May 2006 | Mrs. H. Harris Jonas, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.29 million | Une liseuse de romans 1888, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 21 June 2005, | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.28 million |
La porte du jardin à Vétheuil 1881; 60x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 4.08 million | Infantin. Spanierin 1912-1913, 53x49cm oil on board |  |
Alexej von Jawlensky | Christie's, London | 27 June 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.98 million | Berges de la Seine près de Vétheuil 1881, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 08 February 2012 | The Henry Zimet Foundation, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.97 million | Cathédrale de Rouen 1892, 92x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2014 | Private Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.94 million | Le Musior. Port d'Antibes 1918, 60x72cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Signac | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.94 million | The Bridge 2015, 239x199cm oil on canvas |  |
Adrian Ghenie | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.92 million | Literatis in Lanting(SUI DYANSTY，6TH CENTURY) 1945, 34x40cm ink and colour on paper |  |
Fu Baoshi | China Guardian (HK) Auctions | 2016 Autumn | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.75 million | La Seine à Bougival 1869, 50x95cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 19 June 2012 | Private Collection, USA | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.73 million |
Gradiva 1931; 20x15cm oil on copper |  |
Salvador Dalí | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.71 million | Farm House with birch trees 1900, 80x80cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Sotheby’s, London | 21 June 2004 | Heirs of Hermine Lasus | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.66 million | Statuette de plâtre: Torse de femme, vue de face 1887, 73x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent Van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 3 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.65 million |
Trois femmes 1920, 46x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Fernand Léger | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.60 million | Man with a Sword 1644, 102x88cm oil on canvas |  |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Christie's, London | 3 December 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.59 million | The 'Laakmolen' near The Hague. The Windmill 1882, 37x56cm watercolour |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, London | 23 June 2015 | Private Collection, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.52 million | Vertical Composition I 1950, 54x29cm oil on canvas |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2014 | Galerie Beyeler, Basel | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.52 million | Untitled 1947, 47x63cm brush, spatter, graphite, and black and colored inks on paper |  |
Jackson Pollock | Christie's, New York | 13 May 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.51 million | Au bord du fjord, près Christiania 1895, 65x100cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.49 million | Voilier sur le petit bras de la Seine, Argenteuil 1872, 51x63cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2009 | H.O.H. Frelinghuysen | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.42 million | Vase de pivoines 1882, 100x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 03 February 2015 | Private Collection, USA | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.38 million | Bords de la Méditerranée, temps gris 1888, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 03 November 2008 | Private Collection, France | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.36 million | Portrait d'Angel Fernández de Soto 1899, 61x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Pablo Picasso | Christie's, New York | 16 November 2016 | Gallery Suzuki, Tokyo | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.21 million | Irrlichte 1903, 52x59cm oil on canvas |  |
Gustav Klimt | Christie's, New York | 3 November 2010 | Private collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.21 million | Claude Monet et Mme Henriot 1880, 54x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2009 | Private Collection, Europe | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.18 million | Chemin dans le brouillard 1879, 60x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 07 May 2013 | Private Collection, Switzerland | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.17 million | Autoportrait à la mandoline 1889, 61x50cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 9 May 2007 | Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.14 million | Nature morte à l'estampe japonaise 1888, 31x55cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New Yor | 7 May 2003 | Ursula Dubs-Reinhart, Küsnacht | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 3.12 million | Untitled 1990, 132x101cm enamel on paper |  |
Christopher Wool | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Luhring Augustine, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.99 million | Le rêve, Moe Moea 1892, 35x67cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 23 June 2015 | Private Collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.96 million | Les dindons, Pont-Aven 1888, 91x71cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 4 February 2009 | Private Collection, Europe | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.88 million | Untitled 1971, 69x99cm oil-based house paint and wax crayon on paper |  |
Cy Twombly | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.85 million | Paysage d'Arles avec buissons 1888, 73x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 6 February 2001 | Parke Bernet, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.82 million | Saint-Mammès, Le matin 1881, 50x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Alfred Sisley | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2011 | Heirs of William A. Coolidge, Boston | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.74 million | Chevaux à la pointe de la Hève 1863, 54x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 06 November 2013 | Private Collection, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.73 million | An Old Bearded Man 1660-1669, 70x58cm oil on canvas |  |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Christie's, London | 6 July 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.69 million | Pour faire un bouquet 1880, 54x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 29 June 1999 | Hans Jggli-Corti, Winterthur, the husband of the late owner | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.66 million | Chikisei Sesuisho. Shan Tinggui - The 108 Liangshan heroes in the Water Margin 1960, 160x193cm oil on canvas |  |
Kazuo Shiraga | Christie's, Convention Hall | 30 May 2016 | Private Collection, Milan | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.65 million | Champ à Giverny 1887, 66x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 May 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.53 million | Femme en noir or Avant le théâtre 1875, 57x30cm oil on canvas |  |
Berthe Morisot | Christie's, London | 28 February 2017 | Private collection, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.53 million | Faisans, bécasses et perdrix 1879, 89x68cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2015 | A. Alfred Taubman | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.53 million | The ramparts near the bulwark beside the city gate at St. Anthonispoort, Amsterdam 1660, 14x17cm pen and brown ink |  |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Christie's, New York | 28 January 2000 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.46 million | Birds and Flowers 1748, 35x328cm handscroll, ink and colour on silk |  |
Hua Yan - Birds and Flowers 1748 | Christie's, Hong Kong | 28 May 2010 | Lu Fang Ge Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.43 million | Péniches à Asnières 1873, 55x74cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 May 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.42 million | Paysage à Osny près de l'abreuvoir 1883, 71x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Camille Pissarro | Christie's, New York | 8 May 2000 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.38 million | Printemps à Vétheuil 1881, 60x80cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 08 February 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.37 million | La Berge a Lavacourt, Neige 1879, 55x74cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 22 June 2010 | Galerie Schmit, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.29 million | Nymphéas 1917-1919, 46x56cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 06 May 2015 | Private Collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.28 million | Wever naar rechts gekeerd. Weaver Facing Right 1884, 36x45cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent Van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 16 November 2016 | Private Collection, Europe | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.24 million | Mountain in Spring 1981, 57x127cm hanging scroll； ink and colour on paper |  |
Zhang Daqian | China Guardian (HK) Auctions | 2017 Spring | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.17 million | Branche de citronnier 1884, 50x57cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 05 November 2015 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.16 million | La maison blanche 1885, 74x60cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, London | 4 February 2014, | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.09 million | Etude de joncs 1876, 54x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2010 | Estate of Daniel Carasso | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.09 million | Paysage, homme assis; étude pour Un Dimanche d'été à l'Ile de La Grande Jatte 1884-1885, 16x25cm oil on panel |  |
Georges Seurat | Christie's, New York | 3 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.04 million | Un Chêne au Bas-Bréau, le Bodmer 1865, 54x41cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 03 November 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.04 million | Chiansei Kinhyoshi 1962, 193x130cm oil on canvas |  |
Kazuo Shiraga | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 2.02 million | Vaches au bord de la mer 1886, 74x111cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 3 November 2004 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.96 million | Budding Lotus 1975, 59x96cm splashed ink and colour on paper, framed |  |
Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien) | Sotheby’s Hong Kong | 08 October 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.87 million | Charing Cross Bridge 1899-1901, 65x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2009 | Private Collection, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.86 million | Evocation hivernale A. Reminiscence of winter A 1888, 100x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Chu Teh-Chun | Christie's, Hong Kong | 23 November 2013 | Private Collection, Asia | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.82 million | Le fort d'Antibes 1888, 59x80cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2014 | Private Collection, Zurich | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.80 million | Untitled 2012, 256x304cm oil and oilstick on canvas |  |
Joe Bradley | Christie's, New York | 15 November 2016 | Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.73 million | Un Moulin à Zaandam 1871, 50x75cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.65 million | Bords de la Seine en automne 1876, 55x73cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 02 November 2011 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.60 million | Pavots rouge et rose 1883, 119x37cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 05 February 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.54 million | Untitled 10-6-1 2010, 180x280cm oil on canvas |  |
Zeng Fanzhi | Christie's, Hong Kong | 24 November 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.51 million |
Deux Femmes Assises (Recto) Etude Pour L'Offrande (Verso) 1908; 25x32cm gouache and pencil on paper |  |
Pablo Picasso | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.48 million | Sans titre 1951, 89x142cm oil on canvas |  |
Jean-Paul Riopelle | Christie's, Paris | 7 June 2017 | Collection Shirley Jaffe, Paris | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.43 million | L'Avenue au parc de Voyer-d'Argenson à Asnières 1887, 55x67cm oil on canvas |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Christie's, New York | 8 May 2000 | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gilman, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.42 million |
Espagnole 1941-1942; 75x53cm oil on board |  |
Francis Picabia | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.41 million | Cour de ferme 1878, 61x50cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 06 February 2014 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.33 million | Le Golfe Juan 1888, 65x92cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 06 May 2015 | Private Collection, Japan | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.27 million | Untitled III 1985, 195x223cm oil on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 16 May 2001 | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.26 million |
L’Arc de Triomphe 1962; 26x34cm gouache on paper |  |
René Magritte | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.22 million | Profil d'orage. Profile of a Storm 1956, 97x162cm oil on canvas |  |
Jean-Paul Riopelle | Christie's, London | 27 June 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.20 million | L'Enfant au chien, fils de Madame Marthe et la chienne Pamela-Taussat 1900, 127x71cm oil on canvas |  |
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Christie's, New York | 15 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.21 million | Portrait of a cleric, bust-length, in a blue coat and black hat 1485-1576, 43x33cm oil on canvas |  |
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian | Christie's, London | 2 July 2013 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.19 million |
Vase de fleurs, couple et coq 1957; 65x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Marc Chagall | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.17 million |
Forêt et soleil 1926; 65x54cm oil on canvas |  |
Max Ernst | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.17 million | Les Patineurs à Giverny 1899, 59x81cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 03 November 2010 | Private Collection, United States | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.17 million | Portrait d'homme 1884, 59x46cm oil on canvas |  |
Paul Gauguin | Christie's, New York | 6 November 2008 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.17 million |
Deux Femmes Nues a la Fenetre 1922; 129x96cm oil on canvas |  |
Kees van Dongen | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.11 million |
Portrait de Gala 1926; 92x65cm oil on canvas |  |
Max Ernst | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.11 million | La Seine à Lavacourt 1879, 46x61cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, London | 02 March 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.02 million | Woman, Hand Before Face 1965, 91x58cm oil on paper laid down on board |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 13 November 2013 | Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.01 million |
Le coup au cœur 1956; 20x15cm oil on canvas |  |
René Magritte | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 1.01 million | Girl on Magazine Cover 1970-1971, 105x74cm oil on paper laid down on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 11 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 912 000 |
The Mater Dolorosa 1485-1576, 67x56cm oil on panel |  |
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian | Christie's, New York | 6 April 2006 | Bishop Thomas E. Molloy, Brooklyn, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 907 500 |
French Wire 1964, 114x76cm oil on canvas |  |
Willem de Kooning | Christie's, New York | 18 May 2017 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 845 840 |
BOURSE D'AFFRÈTEMENT DE LA BATELLERIE, SAINT-MAMMÈS OR MAISONS AU BORD DU LOING 1889; 33x41cm oil on canvas |  |
Alfred Sisley | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 842 500 |
La Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Honfleur 1864, 52x68cm oil on canvas |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 04 November 2009 | Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 783 000 |
A man, bust-length, holding a cane and his spectacles, by a wooden ledge 1625-1672, 56x43cm oil on canvas |  |
Karel van der Pluym | Christie's, London | 3 July 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 746 500 | Étretat, Falaise d'Aval 1885, 22x40cm pastel on paper |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 03 November 2010 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 645 839 |
View from the Window of Vincent's Studio in Winter 1882-1883; 40x59cm gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper |  |
Vincent van Gogh | Sotheby’s, London | 28 February 2018 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 425 000 |
Ferme normande sous les arbres 1870-1880,32x22cm pastel on paper |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, New York | 08 May 2014 | Private Collection, New York | Anonymous buyer |
| USD 374 000 |
Étretat, aiguille et porte d'aval, soleil couchant 1883-1885, 18x41cm pastel sur papier |  |
Claude Monet | Sotheby’s, Paris | 30 May 2012 | Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |
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Private Collection | Anonymous buyer |