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The 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

$140 million for No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock (2006)
$137.5 million for Woman III by Willem de Kooning (2006)
$135 million for Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt (2006)
$104 million for Boy with a Pipe by Pablo Picasso (2004)
$95.2 million for Dora Maar with Cat by Pablo Picasso (2006)
$82.5 million for Portrait du Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh (1990)
$78.1 million for Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1990)
$76.7 million for The Massacre of the Innocents by Paul Rubens (2002)
$71.5 million for Portrait de L'Artiste sans Barbe by Vincent van Gogh (1998)
$60.5 million for Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier by Paul Cézanne (1999)

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