World S Most Expensive Watercolor Painting
Guinness world records lists leonardo da vinci s mona lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting.
World s most expensive watercolor painting. You can find w n paints at just about any craft or art store. Overall the highest known price paid for an artwork. This was not only setting the world record for the highest paid asian artist but his piece was considered the most expensive work sold at an auction house in hong kong. The third most expensive painting in the world is the card players by paul cézanna.
Featuring a nude woman lying against a mostly dark red backdrop the work which is one of modigliani s most recognized pieces sold on november 9 2015 for 170 4 million usd exceeding the estimate of 100. Griffin by david geffen foundation in the year 2015. One of the most expensive paintings number 17a is an oil painting on fibreboard. Zao wou ki s most renowned work was his 1985 juin octobre painting triptych that sold for a whopping 65 million at the sotheby s modern art evening sale in hong kong.
It s one of five paintings included in the french master s 1890s series of the same name. Windsor newton is one of the oldest watercolor paint brands and also one of the most popular. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble. This is a progressive list of record auction prices for an artwork by a living artist.
This is the collection of most expensive painting or the highest known prices ever paid for painting. The earliest sale on the list vase with fifteen sunflowers by vincent van gogh is from 1987 and more than trebled the previous record price set only two years before introducing a new era in top picture prices. One of the most expensive paintings ever nu couché or reclining nude was painted by italian artist amedeo modigliani in 1917 18. At 200 million dollars it is one of the most expensive paintings in the world.
On permanent display at the louvre in paris the mona lisa was. The current record price is 91 1 million for jeff koons s 1986 sculpture rabbit in may 2019 the most expensive painting by a living artist sold at auction is david hockney s 1972 portrait of an artist pool with two figures at 90 3 million in 2018. It was purchased by the royal family of qatar in 2011 reportedly paying double the existing record for any artwork to be sold at auction. 50 best watercolor paintings from top artists around the world neel watercolor painting also aquarelle from french is a painting method.