Jackson Pollock’s No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records and co-founder of Dreamworks SKG, to David Martinez, managing partner of Fintech Advisory Ltd, in a private sale for a record price of $140 million. Adjusted price $149.7.

In November 2006, Willem de Kooning’s Woman III was sold by David Geffen to billionaire Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million, making it the second most expensive painting ever sold. Adjusted price $147.0.

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was sold for $135 million to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York City in June 2006, which made it at that time the most expensive painting ever sold. It has been on display at the gallery since July 2006. Adjusted price $144.4.

Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh and fetched a record price of $82.5 million ($75 million, plus a 10 percent buyer’s commission) in 1990. Adjusted price $136.1.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre owned by John Hay Whitney, on May 17, 1990, his widow sold the painting for $78 million at Sotheby’s in New York City, New York to Ryoei Saito, the honorary chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company, Japan. Adjusted price $128.8.

Pablo Picasso Garçon a la pipe owned by the estate of John Hay Whitney, on May 5, 2004 sold for $104.1 million at an auction in Sotheby’s in New York City, after having been given a pre-sale estimate of $70 million by the auction house. Adjusted price $118.9.

Vincent van Gogh’s Irises In 1987, became the most expensive painting ever sold, setting a record which stood for two and a half years. Then it was sold for $54 million to Alan Bond, but he did not have enough money to pay for it and it had to be re-sold. Adjusted price $102.3.

Pablo Picasso’s Dora Maar au Chat an anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of $95 million, well exceeding the pre-auction $50 million estimates. Adjusted price $101.8.

Van Gogh painted Self-Portrait without beard just after he had shaved himself. The self-portrait is, selling for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York. Adjusted price $94.6.

Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold for almost $88 million in November 2006 at Christie’s. Adjusted price $94.0.

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