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title: "The Most Expensive Paintings in the World"  
description: "Many of the paintings created by the old masters before the 19th century are housed in museums where the public is able to view them."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-19  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1356/the-most-expensive-paintings-in-the-world  
category: "art and design"  
tags: ["Painting", "paintings", "expensive paintings", "famous art", "art"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# The Most Expensive Paintings in the World

![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/57d05d43-9447-4a07-8032-cf9e21077cfa.jpeg) ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/93a7be5f-7e71-45d3-8c32-828d5fc85bf4.jpeg) Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo (1503-1506) by Leonardo da Vinci ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/e4087009-f012-4d4b-9323-36d4f3723739.jpeg) Salvator Mundi (c.1500) by Leonardo da Vinci ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/e8332087-0655-49d8-9b3d-a05d1b7b916b.jpeg) The Card Players (1892-1893) by Paul Cézanne ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/da6e3d3a-ece5-472e-954f-b1e53f28b4cc.jpeg) Nafea Faa Ipoipo? (1892, ‘When Will You Marry?’) by Paul Gauguin ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/ad7591c2-5c40-44e9-a012-16014e617540.jpeg) Wasserschlangen II (1907, ‘Water Serpents II’) by Gustav Klimt ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/e9f93672-d8a9-4f55-9b97-1ce87aabacb3.jpeg) Pendant Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit (1634) by Rembrandt ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/bb2f2258-8873-4d04-be57-c40fd059473a.jpeg) Nu couché les bras croisés derrière la tête (1917, ‘Reclining Nude’) by Amedeo Modigliani ![The Most Expensive Paintings in the World](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0c2f2234-a770-428b-bc04-43ce543862b1/images/898c4773-e41b-4540-a94c-c9a47e2d7410.jpeg) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) by Gustav Klimt

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