Give your lover $2 billion in art (or just keep it for yourself)
As previously announced, one of the new Art Channel shows for Valentine’s Day, “Highest Priced,” includes paintings which have sold for over $2 billion. Quite the Valentine’s Day gift. Not only are these paintings literally worth a fortune, but they make great backdrops on your living room wall as you and your Valentine open your other presents. Or just chill. Only on the Art Channel and Apple TV.
In case you’re curious what’s in the “Highest Priced” show, here’s the full list:
| Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) | Gauguin, Paul | $300 million in 2015 |
| The Card Players | Cézanne, Paul | $259 million in 2011 |
| Reclining Nude (Nu Couché) | Modigliani, Amedeo | $170.4 million in 2015 |
| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | Klimt, Gustav | $135 million in 2006 |
| Salvator Mundi | Leonardo da Vinci | $127.5 million in 2013 |
| The Scream | Munch, Edvard | $119.9 million in 2012 |
| Reclining Nude on Blue Cushion (Nu Couché au coussin Bleu) | Modigliani, Amedeo | $118 million in 2012 |
| Boy with a Pipe (Garçon à la Pipe) | Picasso, Pablo | $104.2 million in 2004 |
| La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir | Cézanne, Paul | $100 million in 2013 |
| Portrait of Oopjen Coppit | Rembrandt | $90 million in 2015 |
| Portrait of Marten Soolmans | Rembrandt | $90 million in 2015 |
| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II | Klimt, Gustav | $87.9 million in 2006 |
| Portrait of Dr. Gachet | Gogh, Vincent van | $82.5 million in 1990 |
| Water Lily Pond (Le bassin aux nymphéas) | Monet, Claude | $80.5 million in 2008 |
| Ball at the Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) | Renoir, Pierre-Auguste | $78.1 million in 1990 |
| The Massacre of the Innocents | Rubens, Peter Paul | $76.7 million in 2012 |
| Darmstadt Madonna | Holbein, Hans the Younger | $75 million in 2011 |
| Diana and Callisto | Titian | $71.7 million in 2012 |
| Self-portrait without beard (Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe) | Gogh, Vincent van | $71.5 million in 1998 |
| Diana and Actaeon | Titian | $70.6 million in 2009 |
| Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page | Titian | $70 million in 2003 |
| Nude Sitting on a Divan (The Beautiful Roman Woman) | Modigliani, Amedeo | $69 million in 2010 |
| The Gross Clinic (The Clinic of Dr. Gross) | Eakins, Thomas | $68 million in 2007 |
| La Gommeuse | Picasso, Pablo | $67.45 million in 2015 |
| Les Alyscamps | Gogh, Vincent van | $66.3 million in 2015 |
| Jeanne (Spring) | Manet, Edouard | $65.1 million in 2014 |
| Curtain, Jug and Fruit (Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier) | Cézanne, Paul | $60.5 million in 1999 |
| Suprematist Composition (blue rectangle over the red beam) | Malevich, Kazimir | $60 million in 2008 |
| Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | Gogh, Vincent van | $58 million in 1989 |
| Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haude Galline near Eygalieres | Gogh, Vincent van | $57 million in 1993 |
| Woman with Folded Arms (Femme aux Bras Croisés) | Picasso, Pablo | $55 million in 2000 |
| Irises | Gogh, Vincent van | $53.9 million in 1987 |
| Young Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat sitting in front of a wheatfield | Gogh, Vincent van | $47.5 million in 1997 |
| Sunflowers | Gogh, Vincent van | $39.7 million in 1987 |
| Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) | Pontormo, Jacopo | $35.2 million in 1989 |
A few of the high-priced works by modern and contemporary artists, such as Picasso, Rothko, Pollock and Warhol are not included because the originals are still under copyright. You’ll just have to go out and try to buy these for yourself 🙂
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