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5 Priciest Artworks Ever Auctioned

Pablo Picasso makes 2 appearances

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 6, 2012 8:38 AM CDT

(Newser) – Following the record-breaking sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream, the Guardian takes a look at the other biggest sales of art at auction. The top five:

  1. Edvard Munch, The Scream, $119.9 million.
  2. Pablo Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, $106.5 million.
  3. Alberto Giacometti, L'homme qui Marche I, $105.2 million.
  4. Pablo Picasso, Boy With a Pipe, $104.2 million.
  5. Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, $87.9 million.

Head to the Guardian for the full top 10.

'The Scream,' by Edvard Munch.
'The Scream,' by Edvard Munch.   (AP Photo/Sotheby’s Auction House)
Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust.'
Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust.'   (AP Photo/Christie's)
'Walking Man I' or 'L'Homme qui marche I,'  by Alberto Giacometti, being auctioned at Sotheby's in London.
'Walking Man I' or 'L'Homme qui marche I,' by Alberto Giacometti, being auctioned at Sotheby's in London.   (AP Photo/Anthony Devlin, pa, File)
Pablo Picasso's 'Boy With a Pipe.'
Pablo Picasso's 'Boy With a Pipe.'   (Wikipedia)
'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II,' by Gustav Klimt.
'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II,' by Gustav Klimt.   (AP Photo/ Christie's)
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DanPB
May 6, 2012 9:01 PM CDT
A 3-year-old could have done better!
myflap.blow
May 6, 2012 10:13 AM CDT
another article? I used to like this painting. Now I feel like the dude in it! Its great it sold for so much. Now do some articles on something like lottery winners! I swear they try to drive shit like this under our skin.
 

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