A Wheat Field with Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh

Price in US $ - 57 million
















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The last two years of Van Gogh's life were productive of marvelous pictures--painted though they were under constant strain. During this period he traveled far from his Impressionist starting-point. The equable balance of Impressionism was replaced by an emotional turbulence.

This picture appears as a whole in the multitude of curves that twist and turn and repeat themselves throughout. The Neo-Impressionist juxtaposition of near-primary colors was also exaggerated to a point of intense brilliance.

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.

Eight Elvises - Andy Warhol

Price in US $ -100 million













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Andy Warhol, born on August 6, 1928 (death:February 22, 1987) was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His art works are comprised of over 12,000 pieces of art which includes his drawings, paintings, photography, sculptures, films and prints.

Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol of Elvis Presley. Unlike the artist’s other screen prints, which were run off, sometimes in hundreds of editions, he only made one of the work he called Eight Elvises.

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust - Pablo Picasso

Price in US $ - 106.5 million
























Painted in a single day in 1932 featuring Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting was publicly exhibited only once, in 1961, to commemorate Picasso's 80th birthday.

Currently displayed at Tate Modern in London.

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.

Triptych, 1976 - Francis Bacon

Price in US $ - 86,300,000

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 and died in Madrid in 1992. Throughout and beyond his lifetime, his work has been exhibited widely. Bacon's artwork is known for its bold, austere, homoerotic and often violent or nightmarish imagery, which typically shows room-bound masculine figures isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.

In Bacon's art, modernity and tradition converge. In his gut-wrenching serialisation of the human body and its sensations, he shows himself to be the unflinching witness of the hysterical reality of the body and the primal fear of those who inhabit it.

The Massacre of the Innocents - Rubens

Price in US $ - 76,000,000



This painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, depicts an episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents as related in the Gospel of Matthew. Rubens draws on the great Italian Renaissance painters including Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese to depict one of the most brutal Biblical scenes: when king Herod ordered all new-born boys to be killed to prevent one of them becoming the Messiah.


The Massacre of the Innocents holds the current record for an Old Master painting.