The $179 Million Picasso & The World's Most Expensive Art
High Rollers
Picasso’s ‘Women of Algiers’ sold for $179.3 million and became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. It joins the ranks of other mega-priced canvases.
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Pablo Picasso, "Les femmes d'Alger (Version O)"
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ‘At the Moulin de la Galette’
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Vincent van Gogh, ‘Portrait of Dr. Gachet’
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Pablo Picasso, ‘Dora Maar au Chat’
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Pablo Picasso, ‘Boy With a Pipe’
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Pablo Picasso, ‘Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust’
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Edvard Munch, 'The Scream'
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Gustav Klimt, ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer’
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Willem de Kooning, ‘Woman III’
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Andy Warhol, 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)'
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Jackson Pollock, ‘No. 5, 1948’
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Francis Bacon, 'Three Studies of Lucien Freud'
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