Expensive paintings

The Hong Kong Autumn sales will commence in merely one month and Sotheby’s has finally revealed the highlight lot of their Contemporary Art Evening sale. Leading the sale is Gerhard Richter’s masterpiece Abstraktes Bild (649-2) which was painted in the 80s. The piece will appear on the auction st

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Every wondered what over $1 billion looks like in art? Well here's the list! The top 10 most expensive paintings includes both auction and private sales to give you the most complete list on the internet.

We’d like to point out the 10 most expensive paintings ever to be purchased, ranging from extremely well known artists to more obscure ones

Willem de Kooning has become synonymous with a post–World War II art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As the world attempted to put itself together after the war, so did artists like de Kooning, who felt disillusioned and damaged by the events that transpired. De Kooning's work expresses the ugly reality of that new world.

Everyone knows Picasso was the father of Cubism, but did you know he was once tried in court for allegedly stealing the Mona Lisa?

The auction house will sell Warhol's version of the Last Supper as well, making for a sale of biblical proportions this November.

Gerhard Richter currently rules unchallenged as the most expensive living artist in the world. And the most expensive of all his many styles are these large abstract squeegee paintings. A 2011 documentary film by Corinna Belz (Gerhard Richter Painting) depicts the heavy labor routinely undertaken by this 80-year-old in order to produce his squeegee abstracts, which now regularly reach auction prices above $20 million. As a young man Richter fled from East Germany to settle in West Germany…

$186,000,000 for Mark Rothko’s No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red), 1951. | 15 Of The Most Expensive Paintings In The World