Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings in the World

TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS IN THE WORLD

"Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo da Vinci:

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"Interchange" by Willem de Kooning:

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"The Card Players" by Paul Cézanne:

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"Nafea Faa Ipoipo" (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin:

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"Number 17A" by Jackson Pollock:

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"No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)" by Mark Rothko:

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"Nu couché" by Amadeo Modigliani:

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"Les Femmes d'Alger" ("Version 'O'") by Pablo Picasso:

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"Portrait of Dr. Gachet" by Vincent van Gogh:

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"Three Studies of Lucian Freud" by Francis Bacon:

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