April 20, 2012 / Featured / 1 comment 
Although many famous pictures are held in museums and are thus literally priceless, those which are sold at the auctions may have truly mind-boggling price tags. Are they worth it? You decide.
Pablo Picasso – Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), 1902
Sold for $55 million in 2000
Vincent van Gogh – A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889
Sold for $57 million in 1993
Kazimir Malevich – Suprematist Composition, 1916
Sold for $60 million in 2008
Paul Cézanne – Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, 1894
Sold for $60.5 million in 1999
Willem de Kooning – Police Gazette, 1955
Sold for $63.5 in 2006
Vincent van Gogh – Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe (Self-portrait without beard), 1889
Sold for $71.5 million in 1998
Andy Warhol – Green Car Crash, 1963
Sold for $71.7 million in 2007
Mark Rothko –White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950
Sold for $72.8 million in 2007
Peter Paul Rubens – Massacre of the Innocents, 1611
Sold for $76.7 million in 2002
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette), 1876
Sold for $78.1 million in 1990
Jasper Johns – False Start, 1959
Sold for $80 million in 2006
Claude Monet – Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (Water Lily Pond), 1919
Sold for $80.5 million in 2008
Vincent van Gogh – Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890
Sold for $82.5 million in 1990
Francis Bacon – Triptych, 1976
Sold for $86.3 million in 2008
Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912
Sold for $87.9 million in 2006
