The Scream - Edvard Munch

Price in US $ -  119.9million

The Scream by Expressionist artist Edvard Munch is the name given to four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, between 1893 and 1910.The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery (Oslo) was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna (also by Munch) were stolen from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years later. In the painting, even the sky expresses the narcissism of despair, the figures in the background seem as melancholy and lost as the screamer. And the face does not scream, rather it is a scream.

At the Lapin Agile - Pablo Picasso

Price in US $ - 40.7 million





















At the turn of the twentieth century the Lapin Agile, a Montmartre cabaret in France, was a favorite spot for struggling artists and writers, including Picasso, Modigliani, Apollinaire, and Utrillo.

Pablo Picasso's 1905 oil painting "At the Lapin Agile" helped to make this cabaret world famous.

Picasso's composition was of posterlike simplicity. He aligned glasses and figures—hatted and shown from full-face to profile view—along severe diagonals, ending with a seated guitarist, Frédé, the café's owner.

Steve Martin wrote a play 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' based on this painting.



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False Start - Jasper Johns

Price in US $ - 80 million






















Jasper Johns is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. The False Start is one of his popular oil paintings made on a canvas 170.8 centimeters long and 137.2 centimeters wide - best described as second generation abstract expressionist.

His fixation on technical procedures defines the work of art as almost a kind of utilitarian object—as if the function of a painting were, first and foremost, to describe itself.

Les Noces de Pierrette (The marriage of Pierrette) - Pablo Picasso

Price in US $ - 49, 300, 000




From Picasso's Blue Period (1905); he created the painting during the most critical period of his life; when he was suffering of continuous depression from the death of his dear friend Carlos Casagemas. The brilliant painting is the last in the list of Picasso's Japanese themed paintings. The painting is considered as a blue period masterpiece. No doubt the painting is a great artwork and masterpiece in all respects. The painting perfectly combines all the magic, mystery and melancholy of Picasso's Blue period.

Dora Maar with Cat - Pablo Picasso

Price in US $ - 95,200,000



A world famous painting by Pablo Picasso, it depicts Dora Maar, the painter's Croatian mistress, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. The faceted planes of her body and richly layered surface of brushstrokes impart a monumental and sculptural quality to this portrait

This painting is one of Picasso’s most valued depictions of his lover and artistic companion. Their partnership had been one of intellectual exchange and intense passion -- Dora was an artist, spoke Picasso’s native Spanish, and shared his political concerns.

Venus and Adonis - Titian

Price in US $ - 13,500,500


Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, relates the story of the goddess Venus vainly trying to restrain her lover, the mortal Adonis, from departing for the hunt. The mood of playful sensuality conceals the tragic irony that Adonis is destined to be killed during the hunt by a wild boar.Titian's loose, energetic strokes of paint give the painting a sense of spontaneity and movement. Titian used rich colors, shimmering highlights, and a lush landscape to create the painting's evocative, poignant mood.

Portrait du Dr Gachet - Van Gogh

Price in US $ - 82,500,000


Van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1890 about the painting: “I've done the portrait of M. Gachet with a melancholy expression, which might well seem like a grimace to those who see it... Sad but gentle, yet clear and intelligent, that is how many portraits ought to be done... There are modern heads that may be looked at for a long time, and that may perhaps be looked back on with longing a hundred years later."