What price is art? Plenty

[BSClay]

What makes one painting worth millions of dollars and another one less than the cost of its canvas and paint? No one knows, but that doesn’t stop people from paying huge sums of money for art.

Here’s a list of some of the world’s most valuable paintings and what they’ve sold for:

• No. 5, Jackson Pollack, $140 million in 2006

• Woman III, Willem de Kooning, $137.5 million in 2006

• Adele Bloch-Bauer 1, Gustav Klimt, $135 million in 2006

• Garçon a la Pipe, Pablo Picasso, $104 million in 2004

• Dora Maar with Cat, Picasso, $95.2 million in 2006

• Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, $82.5 million in 1990

• Le Bassin aux Nympheas, Claude Monet, $80 million in 2008

• Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, $78 million in 1990

• Massacre of the Innocents, Peter Paul Rubens, $76.7 million in 2002

• Portrait de l’Artiste sans Barbe, van Gogh, $71.5 million in 1998

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Ain't it all nuts!!! Personally I think people take art & money to the brink of insanity!!

I prefer those paintings I can get in Walmart for $20.00!! At least they make sense to me!

[BSClay]

LOL I totally agree. Most of the art that costs so much looks like a 5 year old did it in my opinion.