Collecting fine art is an expensive habit. The world’s most valuable paintings cost more than some luxury cars, boats, and houses. To see just how much owning a gem of the art world would set ...

Every painting on this list has sold for over $100 million. Multiple buyers on this list own more than one of the most expensive works of art. Also: Discover “the Next Nvidia” Art is among ...

Art amassed by late Microsoft cofounder Paul ... W11 (after Watteau)” selling for $86.2 million. The most expensive lots were sold during a Wednesday evening sale, which focused on 60 of the ...

Update, 6/27/23: Gustav Klimt's "Lady with a Fan" sold for $108.4 million, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of art, and most expensive painting, ever sold in Europe. The last ...

It was last seen in 1990, when it sold for $82.5m, making it then the most expensive painting ever auctioned. The portrait later discreetly changed hands twice, most recently in 1998, when it ...

What does it say about the upper reaches of the international art market—we’re talking about bonafide trophy-hunting territory—when the tenth most expensive work sold this year had a ...