Salvator Mundi, the world's most expensive and controversial painting, sold for $450 million at Christie's in 2017.
Willem de Kooning, known as the "artist's artist," influenced abstract expressionist style with gestural works, including Interchange, acquired by Kenneth C. Griffin for $300 million in 2015.
Paul Cézanne's 1890s series of five cards paintings, featuring labor workers, was purchased by Qatar's royal family for $250-300 million in 2011.
Paul Gaugin's 1891 Tahiti painting, "When Will You Marry?", depicts a young woman donning a flower, initially reported for $300 million, later sold for $210 million.
Jackson Pollock, a leader in the abstract expressionist movement, used drip technique to convey emotion in his early works, including Number 17A, which was purchased by billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin in 2015.
The Standard-Bearer, a 1636 Rembrandt self-portrait, was sold to the Netherlands for €198 million in 2022, and is now on special display in museums across the country.
Mark Rothko's No. 6, completed in 1951, features violet and red, separated by green, and was privately sold for $186 million in 2014, breaking a new record.