the most expensive paintings ever sold

What would you buy if you had 100 million dollars? would you power it all into a single painting? Some of the richest people in the world have done that. what make them splash out so much money on art? Maybe cause they love art or just for business!

$186m (Violet, Green and Red) by Mark Rothko

Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire, paid $186 million, setting a record for a work by the American painter. However, it is now subject to a legal dispute with Mr Rybolovlev accusing Yves Bouvier, an art dealer, of misleaing him about the price.

So is this example the best painting ever made!! Not exacly, but the importan thing is that the value isn’t only about the quality.
something that can send the price of a painting rochting is what’s known in the art world as provenance who has owned the painting is the past and the case of rothko’s violet, green and red it was owned by one of the wealhiest and most powerful dynasties in America the Rochefellers who amassed their fortune from oil and baking and reshaped the New-York skyline with the Rochefeller Center on the 56th floor David Rockefeller built an impressie art collection that included works by Picasso goguen and Mark Rothko, in 1960 he paid less than thousand dollars for white center (by Mark Rothko) a century later it was more than 72 million dollars!!

$76.529.058 million. Massacre of the innocents by Peter Paul Ruben, 1610.

Bought by Kenneth Thompson at Sotheby’s London, July 2002. The flamboyant and dramatic work by Rubens – though recently some voices discussing its authenticity have been heard could also fight for the title of „most unexpected success“: Christie’s had estimated its price at a mere £5 million.
The flemish painter peter paul rubens is considered one of the greatesr artists of all time so perhaps it’s unsurprising that an old master makes it between the moste expensie paintings, actually it’s rare for such a good quality to come to auction, nearly all the finest old masters are now in museums they’re highly unlikely to ever reach the market again.
Averyone wants to buy the real thing but very few great Rubens’s of any period in his carrer now you can buy so when a great one comes up it gets an exponential frost until it’s on that moment of being actually for sale, it doesn’t have any value, it’s an absolutely an arbitrary thing and you can’t predict how in the artic three or four people will try and chase the magic rabbit aroud the circuit when it comes out. Only billionaires can chase that rabbit .
The price paid for the most expensive paintings are not just about the art, they reflect provenance in attribution buying for investment and buying to make a grand statement, only very occasionally are they all about love.

$106.5 million. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso, 1932.

This sensual and colorful masterpiece is the most expensive work by Picasso ever sold at auction. The work, formerly in the collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, had been never exhibited in public since 1961.
Unfortunately some of this hilarious art works were bought by millioners and billioners that actually are anknown, want to keep them selves private as why they bought paintings, sadely for investment and business! But a lot of them are in museums and galleries which we can enjoy how beautiful they are and imagine the story behind every single painting.