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        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.

        The Daily Beast

        Updated Jul. 12, 2017 3:55PM ET / Published May. 12, 2015 12:45PM ET 

        Darren Ornitz/REUTERS

        Pablo Picasso, "Les femmes d'Alger (Version O)"

        Darren Ornitz/REUTERS

        Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ‘At the Moulin de la Galette’

        Tim Clary, AFP / Getty Images

        Vincent van Gogh, ‘Portrait of Dr. Gachet’

        Eckehard Schulz / AP Photos

        Pablo Picasso, ‘Dora Maar au Chat’

        Timothy A. Clary, AFP / Getty Images

        Pablo Picasso, ‘Boy With a Pipe’

        Sotheby's / AP Photos

        Pablo Picasso, ‘Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust’

        Stan Honda, AFP / Getty Images

        Edvard Munch, 'The Scream'

        Mario Tama / Getty Images

        Gustav Klimt, ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer’

        Dieter Nagl, AFP / Getty Images

        Willem de Kooning, ‘Woman III’

        Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty

        Andy Warhol, 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)'

        Sotheby's/AP

        Jackson Pollock, ‘No. 5, 1948’

        Martha Holmes, Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

        Francis Bacon, 'Three Studies of Lucien Freud'

        Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

        Paul Cézanne, ‘The Card Players’

        Stan Honda, AFP / Getty Images

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