Museums often charge a lot for art, but the most expensive art known through auction is Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi which was sold at 450 million US dollars. In the United States, the most expensive art recorded at an auction sold for 197 million US dollars and is a painting of the Portrait of Marilyn Monroe known as ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ by Andy Warhol.
Top Five Most Expensive Art recorded at Auctions.
In 2017, the Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a whopping 450 million US dollars. This makes it the world’s highest known price on paintings. ..
In 1955, Willem de Kooning sold his abstract oil painting “interchanged” for $4000. It has since climbed to a massive sum of 300 million US dollars, and is now considered one of the most valuable paintings ever sold.
The painting, Number 17A by Jackson Pollock, was sold for 200 million US dollars in 2015. It is an abstract oil painting.
In 2015, Amedo Modigliani’s Nu Couché sold for 170.4 million US dollars at auction. The painting is a 1917 oil on canvas and is one of the most expensive pieces of art ever sold. ..
In 1951, Mark Rothko painted No. 6, a painting that is now valued at over $140,000,000. The painting is composed of the colors violet, green and red. It was created in 1951 and has been sold multiple times since then.
Top Most Expensive Arts Sold at Auctions in the United States.
Andy Warhol’s painting of the portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold at an auction for 195 million dollars.
In 1964, an artist named Andy Warhol created a painting of Marilyn Monroe that was shot in 1953 for publicity of a movie. Warhol made five silkscreen portraits of the star all with different backgrounds. The painting got the title “The Shot Marilyns” when Dorothy Podber drove a bullet through four of the paintings that were stacked together. ..
In 1967, a blue background shot of Marilyn Monroe was sold at a price of $5000.
The Shot Marylin with the Orange background was bought in 1988 at 17.3 million US dollars and upon the passing of its owner was bought again in 2017.
In 1989, Marilyn with the red background was bought for $4.1 million. In 1994, it was resold for $3.6 million. ..
The painting that was not shot along with the other four Marilyn paintings is said to have a turquoise background and was bought for the price of eighty million US dollars in 2007. ..
The Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is a painting by American artist Marilyn Monroe that was sold at a record price of 195 million US dollars in May this year. The auction was held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of her film, “The Monkees”.
This painting was created in 1982 and is now considered one of the most famous pieces of art in history. It depicted a skull on a blue background with different strokes of paint across it. The artist recorded a large sum of 110.5 million dollars in 2017.
This was a 1963 piece by the renowned Andy Warhol, it was a silkscreen print mixed with silver and black paint, and it was seen that there were recurring images of car crashes some brighter than the others on canvases. Besides these recurring images was a blank canvas, the painting is about eight feet long and it sold at an auction in 2013 for 105.4 million. The painting however succeeded in relaying the message as implied by the title and the painting itself.
This painting, which is a silkscreen painting of Elvis Presley, was acquired from a publicity shot of Elvis Presley for a movie in the early 1960s. The painting depicted eight images of the star Elvis Presley overlapping upon one another. Just like in the Shot Marilyns, the painting was acquired from a publicity shot of Elvis Presley that was taken for a movie. In this photo, he was dressed with a liking to the western part of the US with a belt latched across his loins whilst holding a pistol in his hands in a fight stance.
This painting, Nurse by Roy Lichtenstein, was created in 1964 and is now worth 95.3 million US dollars. This is a huge increase from the 1.7 million US dollars it sold for in 1995. The painting’s essence was attributed to a romance novel and depicted a lady dressed as a nurse.
Conclusion
The most expensive art in the world is found at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which sells art for over $450,000,000. The most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction was a painting by Leonardo da Vinci called Salvator Mundi that sold for $450,000,000. The most expensive artwork ever sold in the United States was a painting by Andy Warhol called Sage Blue Marilyn that sold for $195,000,000.
The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It is estimated that it would sell for around $100 million. ..
The Mona Lisa is a painting that has been sold for over $900 million dollars. The painting is estimated to have a value of around $100,000,000.
The most valuable art in the world is found at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Louvre is a world-renowned museum located in Paris, France. It is considered the museum with the most valuable art as it houses the Mona Lisa and other renowned artworks. The Louvre is one of the most visited museums in the world, with over 150 million visitors each year.
