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Ranking of the most expensive works in the world: there are no women and the most expensive is $450,000

Ranking of the most expensive works in the world: there are no women and the most expensive is $450,000

The truth is the art collection of the late Paul G. Allen became the most valuable of all timeincluded five works that were sold for more than US$100 million each, received bids from bidders from 32 countries around the world and a total of 27 artists established new recordsreported the auctioneer.

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With this auction, the top ten had changes in positions 6 and 9, from where it displaced names like Pablo Picasso and Claude Monetto incorporate, respectively, “The models, Ensemble (small version)”, of Georges-Pierre Seurat (sold for $149 million), and “The Sainte-Victoire Mountain” by Paul Cézanne, sold for $137.7 million.

The works that are now left out of the list are “Girl with a flower basket” by Pablo Picasso (u$s115,000,000) and “Almiares” of Claude Monet (US$110,747,000).

The third highest-grossing work in the Allen Collection auction was “Verger with Cypresses” by Vincent van Goghwhich with the US$117 million it obtained was not enough to enter the coveted list of the most expensive in the world.

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Top 10 of the most expensive works

  1. “Salvator Mundi” (1500), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci – $450,312,500
  2. “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964), Andy Warhol – $195,040,000
  3. “The Women of Algiers (Version O)” (1955), Pablo Picasso – $179,365,000
  4. “Reclining Nude” (1917-18), Amedeo Modigliani – $170,405,000
  5. “Lying Nude (Left Side)” (1917), Amedeo Modigliani – $157,159,000
  6. “The Models, Ensemble (small version, detail) (1888), Georges-Pierre Seurat – $149,240,000
  7. “Three Studies of Lucian Freud (detail)” (1969), Francis Bacon – $142,405,000
  8. “The Pointing Man (detail)” (1947), Alberto Giacometti – $141,285,000
  9. “The Sainte-Victoire Mountain (detail)” (1888-1890), Paul Cezanne – $137,790,000
  10. “The Scream (detail)” (1895), Edvard Munch – $119,922,500

Source: Ambito

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