List of most expensive paintings

Adjusted price (in millions)	Original price (in millions)	Painting	Artist	Year	Date of sale	Rank at sale	Seller	Buyer	Auction house
$151.2	$140	No. 5, 1948	Jackson Pollock	1948	2006-11-02	1	David Geffen		Private sale via Sotheby's[4]
$148.5	$137.5	Woman III	Willem de Kooning	1953	2006-11-18	2	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian [5]
$144.8	$135	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	Gustav Klimt	1907	2006-06-18	1	Maria Altmann	Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie	Private sale via Christie's[6]
$139.0	$82.5	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	Vincent van Gogh	1890	1990-05-15	1	Siegfried Kramarsky family	Ryoei Saito [7]	Christie's, New York
$131.6	$78.1	Bal du moulin de la Galette[8]	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1876	1990-05-17	2	Betsey Whitney	Ryoei Saito [9]	Sotheby's, New York
$119.9	$104.2	Garçon à la pipe	Pablo Picasso	1905	2004-05-04	3	Greentree foundation(Whitney family)	Guido Barilla? [10]	Sotheby's, New York [11]
$106.5	$106.5	Nude, Green Leaves and Bust	Pablo Picasso	1932	2010-05-04	7	Frances Lasker Brody estate		Christie's, New York [12]
$101.3 ++	$58 plus exchange of works[13]	Portrait of Joseph Roulin	Vincent van Gogh	1889	1989-08-01	1	Private collection, Zürich	Museum of Modern Art New York	Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich[14]
$102.3	$95.2	Dora Maar au Chat	Pablo Picasso	1941	2006-05-03	4	Gidwitz family	Boris Ivanishvili? [15]	Sotheby's, New York [16]
$101.6	$53.9	Irises	Vincent van Gogh	1889	1987-11-11	1	son of Joan Whitney Payson	Alan Bond [17]	Sotheby's, New York
$100.5	$100.0	Eight Elvises	Andy Warhol	1963	2008-10	10	Annibale Berlingieri		Private sale via Philippe Ségalot [18]
$94.9	$71.5	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	Vincent van Gogh	1889	1998-11-19	5	Heirs of Jacques Koerfer		Christie's, New York
$94.9	$87.9	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II	Gustav Klimt	1912	2006-11-02	9	Maria Altmann		Christie's, New York
$92.7	$76.7 (£49.5)	Massacre of the Innocents	Peter Paul Rubens	1611	2002-07-10	6	an Austrian family	Kenneth Thomson [19]	Sotheby's, London
$86.7	$86.3	Triptych, 1976	Francis Bacon	1976	2008-05-14	13	Moueix Family,Château Pétrus[20]	Roman Abramovich [8]	Sotheby's, New York [21]
$86.3	$80.0	False Start [22]	Jasper Johns	1959	2006-10-12	10	David Geffen	Kenneth C. Griffin	Private sale via Richard Gray
$86.0	$57	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	Vincent van Gogh	1889	1993-05	5	son of Emil Georg Bührle	Walter H. Annenberg [23]	Private sale via Steven Mazoh
$85.3	$49.3 (F300)	Les Noces de Pierrette	Pablo Picasso	1905	1989-11-30	3	Fredrik Roos	Tomonori Tsurumaki	Binoche et Godeau Paris
$84.1	$47.85	Yo, Picasso	Pablo Picasso	1901	1989-05-09	2	Wendell Cherry	Stavros Niarchos	Sotheby's, New York
$83.7	$80.0	Turquoise Marilyn	Andy Warhol	1964	2007-05-20	17	Stefan Edlis	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Larry Gagosian [24]
$80.1	$80.5 (£40.9)	Le Bassin aux Nymphéas	Claude Monet	1919	2008-06-24	19	J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller		Christie's, London [25]
$79.2	$60.5	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier [26]	Paul Cézanne	1894	1999-05-10	9	Whitney Family		Sotheby's, New York
$77.0	$39.7 (£24.75)	Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers	Vincent van Gogh	1888	1987-03-30	1	daughter-in-law of Chester Beatty	Yasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp.	Christie's, London
$76.2	$72.8	White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)	Mark Rothko	1950	2007-05-15	20	David Rockefeller, Sr.	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani[27]	Sotheby's, New York [28]
$75.1	$71.7	Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)	Andy Warhol	1963	2007-05-16	21	Private collection, Zürich	Philip Niarchos	Christie's, New York [29]
$72.4	$70.6 (£50)	Diana and Actaeon	Titian	1556-1559	2009-02-01	25	Duke of Sutherland	National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London	Private sale [9] [10][11]
$71.3	$68	The Gross Clinic	Thomas Eakins	1875	2007-04-12	20	Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Private sale
$70.4	$40.7	Au Lapin Agile	Pablo Picasso	1904	1989-11-27	5	daughter of Joan Whitney Payson	Walter H. Annenberg	Sotheby's, New York
$69.7	$38.5 (£20.9)	Acrobate et jeune Arlequin [30]	Pablo Picasso	1905	1988-11-28	3	heir of Roger Janssen?	Mitsukoshi	Christie's, London
$68.8	$55.0	Femme aux Bras Croisés	Pablo Picasso	1902	2000-11-08	13	McCormick family, Chicago		Christie's, New York [31]
$68.5	$63.5	Police Gazette	Willem de Kooning	1955	2006-10-12	19	David Geffen	Steven A. Cohen	Private sale via Richard Gray Gallery
$65.2	$48.4	Le Rêve [32]	Pablo Picasso	1932	1997-11-10	11	Ganz family[12]	Wolfgang Flöttl [13]	Christie's, New York.
$64.4	$47.5	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat	Vincent van Gogh	1890	1997	11		Stephen Wynn [33]	Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York [34]
$64.1	$49.6	Femme assise dans un jardin	Pablo Picasso	1938	1999-11-10	15	Robert Saidenberg		Sotheby's, New York
$61.9	$35.2	Portrait of a Halberdier	Pontormo	1537	1989-05-31	5	Chauncey Devereaux Stillman	Getty Museum	Christie's, New York
$61.5	$60.0	Suprematist Composition	Kazimir Malevich	1916	2008-11-03	34	Heirs of Kazimir Malevich		Sotheby's, New York [35]