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After Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Christ, Salvator Mundi, smashed the record for the most expensive painting sold at an auction last November, we take a look at some of the artworks to have held the title…
Salvator Mundi, Leonardo da Vinci
Year made: c. 1500
Year of sale: 2017
Price sold: $450m
Buyer: Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism
Interchange, Willem de Kooning
Year made: 1955
Year of sale: 2015
Price sold: $300m
Buyer: Kenneth C. Griffin
The Card Players, Paul Cézanne
Year made: 1890-95
Year of sale: 2012
Price sold: $250m
Buyer: The state of Qatar
When Will You Marry?, Paul Gaugin
Year made: 1892
Year of sale: 2015
Price sold: $210m
Buyer: Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani
Number 17A, Jackson Pollock
Year made: 1948
Year of sale: 2015/16
Price sold: $200m
Buyer: Kenneth C. Griffin
No.6 (Violent, Green and Red), Mark Rothko
Year made: 1951
Year of sale: 2014
Price sold: $186m
Buyer: Dmitry Rybolovlev
Pendant Portraits of Maertan Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, Rembrandt
Year made: 1634
Year of sale: 2015
Price sold: €160m for the pair
Buyer: Louvre and Rijksmuseum
Les Femmes d’Alger, Pablo Picasso
Year made: 1954-55
Year of sale: 2015
Price sold: $179.4m
Buyer: Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
Nu Couché, Amedeo Modigliani
Year made: 1917
Year of sale: $170.4m
Price sold: 2015
Buyer: Liu Yiqian
No.5, 1948, Jackson Pollock
Year made: 1948
Year of sale: 2006
Price sold: $140m
Buyer: David Martinez
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