20 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

Hundreds of thousands even millions of dollars are spent every year by art patrons eager to own the world’s most sought-after paintings.Find out a little more about this shortlist of Picasso’s, Van Gogh’s and more works from famous artists who still command the highest prices.

Pablo Picasso – Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), 1902
Sold for $55 million in 2000


Vincent van Gogh – A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889
Sold for $57 million in 1993


Kazimir Malevich – Suprematist Composition, 1916
Sold for $60 million in 2008


Paul Cézanne – Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, 1894
Sold for $60.5 million in 1999


Willem de Kooning – Police Gazette, 1955
Sold for $63.5 in 2006


Vincent van Gogh – Portrait de l’Artiste Sans Barbe (Self-portrait without beard), 1889
Sold for $71.5 million in 1998


Andy Warhol – Green Car Crash, 1963
Sold for $71.7 million in 2007


Mark Rothko –White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950
Sold for $72.8 million in 2007


Peter Paul Rubens – Massacre of the Innocents, 1611
Sold for $76.7 million in 2002


Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette), 1876
Sold for $78.1 million in 1990


Jasper Johns – False Start, 1959
Sold for $80 million in 2006


Claude Monet – Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas (Water Lily Pond), 1919
Sold for $80.5 million in 2008


Vincent van Gogh – Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890
Sold for $82.5 million in 1990


Francis Bacon – Triptych, 1976
Sold for $86.3 million in 2008


Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912
Sold for $87.9 million in 2006


Pablo Picasso – Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), 1941
Sold for $95.2 in 2006


Pablo Picasso – Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe), 1905
Sold for $104.2 million in 2004


Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Sold for $135 million in 2006


Willem de Kooning – Woman III, 1953
Sold for $137.5 million in 2006


Jackson Pollock – No. 5, 1948
Sold for $140 million in 2006

Largest Loop The Loop In A Car

Li Yatao of the Car Team of Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Company in Shanghai, China has made it into the Guinness World Book Of Records after successfully driving the largest loop the loop. The enormous loop had a staggering diameter of 42 feet, and a weight just under 73,000 lbs.

458 Indian Boys Set New Guinness Record by Dressing up as Mahatma Gandhi

Dressed in his iconic khaddar, round spectacles and walking stick, some 485 children in Kolkata created a new Guinness World Record for dressing up as Mahatma Gandhi, the founding father of India, to mark the 64th anniversary of his death.

In addition to setting the record, the underprivileged boys, aged 10 to 16, took part in a half-kilometer trek through Kolkata meant to symbolize the revolutionary Dandi Salt March of 1930.








Via: guardian