A nude painting just sold in New York for a record-breaking $157 million - here are the 15 most expensive paintings ever sold
15. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" — $157.2 million
14. Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" — $135 million
13. Pablo Picasso's "Le Rêve" — $155 million
12. Willem de Kooning's "Woman III" — $137.5 million
11. Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" — $140 million
10. Roy Lichtenstein's "Masterpiece" — $165 million
9. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu Couché" — $170.4 million
Date sold: November 9, 2015
Price: $170.4 million
Type of sale: Christie's, New York, auction
8. Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")" — $179.4 million
7. Rembrandt's "Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit" — $180 million
6. Mark Rothko's "No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)" — $186 million
Date sold: August 2014
Price: $186 million
Type of sale: Private sale via Yves Bouvier
5. Pollock's "Number 17A" — ~$200 million
4. Paul Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)" — $210 million
Date sold: September 2014
Price: $210 million
Type of sale: Private
3. Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" — $250 million
Date sold: April 2011
Price: $250 million
Type of sale: Private
2. Willem de Kooning's "Interchange" — ~$300 million
1. Painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, "Salvator Mundi" — $450.3 million
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