When painters dunk their brushes in their colours and the directly to the art card, calico or paper, it comes out with something excellent. Painters are naturally gifted in what they do, hence their art works are over the top expensive.
The tools and logistics in addition to their time and energy spent on each paint work merits their costs. This brings to fore, how costly these artworks are. Taking a gander at a portion of the prices of some of these paintings, you keep thinking about whether they used unadulterated gold to do it.
Above all else, how about we take a look at two of the most costly artistic creations in the world, which may ‘freeze’ you after hearing the prices. For Billionaires, this wouldn’t terrify them in any capacity, since the vast majority of them do purchase such gifts for a great many dollars.
These artworks and their figures have been compiled from different sources around the web, like Work and Money and World Economic Forum.
- Adele Bloch-Bauer I – by Gustav Klimt
One of the artistic creations is the – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – Gustav Klimt – which costs $135 Million. It is quite possibly the most costly works of art any one would buy.
“The Lady in Gold”, which is painted by Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt is the painting of a Jewish investor’s better half set in 1907. It was bought by Ronald Lauder, a Russian billionaire, in 2006.
The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was shown in New York’s Neue Galerie, and has since been there to date. As per the artist, the artistic creations comes with loads of cash and time in finishing it, hence the price.
2. Salvator Mundi – by Leonardo da Vinci
The other most costly artwork is – Salvator Mundi – Leonardo da Vinci – which costs as much as $450.3 Million. This artistic creation is a Leonardo da Vinci’s portrayal of Jesus Christ holding a gem circle. It is the most costly painting in the world!.
This painting was commissioned by King Louis XII of France in 1605, during a similar period as the Mona Lisa one. Strangely, somewhere close to 1763 and 1900, it vanished from all records until it was rediscovered in 2005, by a group of British art sellers.
Buying the painting or artwork for $10,000, they went through six years reestablishing and researching its set of experiences before in the end reporting that it was the original Da Vinci.
It was then displayed in 2011 by the National Gallery of London and got known as the “Lost Leonardo”, as it was the first discovery of a Da Vinci since 1909.
Salvator Mundi which in a real sense implies – The “Saviour of the World” was bought by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman in the interest of the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.
Meanwhile, these are some of the absolute most costly artworks in the world:
Interchange – Willem de Kooning – $300 Million
The Card Players – Paul Cézanne – $250 Million
Nafea Faa Ipoipo – Paul Gauguin – $210 Million
Number 17A – Jackson Pollock – $200 Million
Masterpiece – Roy Lichtenstein – $165 Million
