List of most expensive paintings

Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.

[6]The list is incomplete with respect to sales between private parties, as these are not always reported and, even if they are, details like the purchase price may remain secret.

For example, on June 25, 2019, the American hedge fund manager J. Tomilson Hill bought a recently rediscovered Judith and Holofernes (1607) attributed to Caravaggio, two days before it would have been auctioned in Toulouse.

According to some sources, the painting had been sold by Argentine art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier for $300 million,[10] but the price was not confirmed by any of the parties involved.

Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 French francs (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch.

Five are traditional Chinese paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Bin, Wang Meng and Xu Yang.

The only non-Western modern artwork listed is that of the Chinese-French painter Zao Wouki's oil painting Juin-Octobre 1985, which was sold for $65 million in 2018.

[17] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.