Top 10 - World's Most Expensive Paintings

1. Jackson Pollock - No 5 1948 - $140,000,000

2. Willem De Kooning - Woman III - $137,500,000

3. Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer - $135,000,000

4. Pablo Picasso - Garcon a la pipe - $104,168,000

5. Pablo Picasso - Dora Maar au chat - $95,216,000

6. Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baur II - $87,936,000

7. Francis Bacon - Triptych 1976 - $86,300,000

8. Vincent van Gogh - Portrait du Dr Gachet - $82,500,000

9. Claude Monet - Le Bassin aux Nymphéas - $80,400,000

10. Jasper Johns - False Start - $80,000,000

Ten of the greatest painters

Ten of the greatest painters who changed the world of art

By BRIAN SEWELL, art critic and television presenter

1. MASACCIO 1401-1428
2. LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519
3. RAPHAEL 1483-1520
4. MICHELANGELO 1475-1564
5. TITIAN 1480-1576
6. CARAVAGGIO 1571-1610
7. REMBRANDT 1606-1669
8. RUBENS 1577-1640
9. VELAZQUEZ 1599-1660
10. PICASSO 1881-1973

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