Top 10: World’s Most Expensive Paintings

It’s ironic that one of the world’s most expensive privately owned paintings is, in most cases, worth more than its owner’s mansion. Now, that’s something to think about. This is the collection of the highest known prices ever paid for paintings sold through auctions and private sales. Obviously these prices don’t compare with the world’s most famous paintings, especially the older works done before 1800, which are generally owned by museums, rarely sold and, as …

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