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THE WORLD’S TOP 20 MOST EXPENSIVE ART PIECES

The world’s top 20 most expensive art pieces.

The most expensive artwork and art pieces ever sold in the world. Including paintings, modern art, photography, sculpture, installation art and more.

By Mau, an art dealer, art collector and senior marketer at eDigital.

THE WORLD’S TOP 20 MOST EXPENSIVE ART PIECES

I already know something about you.

You are an art lover!

The Louvre is nothing compared to the unique art pieces you have at home.

The special art hanging on the walls in your living room is an extension of your personality reflecting the deepest corners of your soul and its most profound meaning.

THE WORLD’S TOP 20 MOST EXPENSIVE ART PIECES

The world‘s top famous and most expensive art pieces you are about to discover below will never be as loved as the ones you possess but will offer you a glimpse of what the art market considers valuable.

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20. CHOP SUEY by Edward Hopper

USD$91 million

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19. RABBIT by Jeff Koons

USD$91 million

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18. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN HOLDING A ROUNDEL (1480) by Sandro Botticelli

USD$92 million

In January 2021, Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel sold at Sotheby’s in New York for a record-breaking $92.2 million. The rare portrait said to be one of the last secular Botticelli portraits in private hands, went to a Russian buyer bidding on the phone with Sotheby’s London-based specialist Lilija Sitnika, hammering at its pre-sale estimate of $80 million. Coming from the collection of the late real estate developer Sheldon Solow, who bought it in 1982 for £810,000 ($1.3 million), the painting broke the artist’s previous record of $10.4 million, made by the sale of the Rockefeller Madonna at Christie’s in 2013.

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17. BIRCH FOREST by Gustav Klimt 

USD$104 million

Gustav Klimt’s Birch Forest (1903) painting set a sales record for the artist in Nov 2022. In one of my favourite paintings, Klimt creates a magical forest where the viewer is submerged in it and becomes part of it.

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16. MATERNITÉ II by Paul Gauguin

USD $105 million

Paul Gauguin painted Maternité II in Tahiti in 1899. Two women pose next to a kneeling mother as she nurses her baby. Gauguin’s emotional brushwork reimagines one of the most recognisable motifs in art history: the Madonna and her child.

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Importance of art

Art is essential in developing the human spirit, an important component of any community and one of the foundations of its culture. Art cannot exist separate from culture. Art reflects culture, transmits culture and shapes culture, comments and criticises culture. Related read: The world’s top 10 protest art.

Art can help us realise people from all around the world are fundamentally the same with the same common desires for connection, expression and communication.

Art has the power to help you see the world in a completely new way with no need for written or spoken language, striking an emotional nerve that leaves an impact on you.

The process of creating and refining art is inherently introspective. When we make art we are examining and observing our own physical, mental and emotional processes which can help us better understand ourselves and the key reasons why life is worth living.

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15. FILLETTE Á LA CORBEILLE FLEURIE by Pablo Picasso

USD$115 million 

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14. VERGER AVEC CYPRÈS by Vincent van Gogh

USD$117 million

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Verger avec cyprès, 1888. Oil on canvas. 25¾ x 31⅞ in (65.2 x 80.2 cm). Sold for $117,180,000 in Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part I on 9 November 2022 at Christie’s in New York.

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13. LES FEMMES D’ALGERS by Pablo Picasso

USD$127 million

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12. LA MONTAGNE SAINTE-VICTOIRE by Paul Cezanne

USD$137 million

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1888-1890. Oil on canvas. 25⅝ x 31⅞ in (65.2 x 81.2 cm). Sold for $137,790,000 in Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part I on 9 November 2022 at Christie’s in New York

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11. LES POSEUSES by George Seurat

USD$149 million

Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version), 1888. 15½ x 19¾ in (39.3 x 50 cm). Sold for $149,240,000 in Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part I on 9 November 2022 at Christie’s in New York.

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Conclusion

Some of these world’s top 20 most valuable artworks often represent significant cultural and historical moments, helping the general public appreciate the depth and diversity of human creativity and expression.

The top value of specific art pieces highlights the dynamics of the art market, providing insights into how art is valued, traded, and collected as an investment.

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