Jackson Pollock's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 15 USD to 61,161,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
Pollock's most expensive paintings include Number 17A, 1948, sold for $200 million in 2015; Number 5, 1948, for $140 million in 2006; and Number 17, 1951, for $61.1 million in 2021.
The most expensive paintings in the world
While some works of art are priceless, others have been sold with an astronomical price tag. The most expensive painting ever sold is the Salvator Mundi, the Saviour of the World in English, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
In August 1973 the Australian Government, through the National Gallery of Australia's acting director, James Mollison, bought Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock. The painting cost $1.3 million – the most ever paid for an American painting in the world at that time.
The Mona Lisa is priceless. Any speculative price (some say over a billion dollars!) would probably be so high that not one person would be able or willing to purchase and maintain the painting. Moreover, the Louvre Museum would probably never sell it.
The Starry Night painting has been highly esteemed for decades and its value has reached $100 million, following its $50 million sale in 1990. Many investors are attracted to his artwork for its financial value.
Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting is painted as oil on wood. The original painting size is 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in) and is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France.
In 2020, his work Henri's Armchair (1974) broke the auction record for the most expensive Australian painting when it was sold for AU$6.1 million — equivalent to around US$4.5 million.
Adelaide-based Ida Sophia has won this year's $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize, Australia's richest award for artists under 40.
The most expensive artwork ever sold at auction was by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. His painting “Warlugulong” (1977) was bought by the National Gallery of Australia in 2007 for AUD 2.4 million (USD 2.1 million).
The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990, when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively valued at $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer's The Concert, which is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world.
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci
The New York Times reported the buyer was acting for a Saudi prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud—the painting has since been under the ownership of the Saudi Arabian culture ministry.
The painting was then sold to Georgette P. van Stolk and then the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, from which the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired the work in 1941, where it has been housed since.
The short answer is that the figure of Jackson Pollock sits at the apex of a vast cultural construction: the currently accepted history of American art and culture. To explain how he got there, and how his work became a form of currency, requires a long answer.
The painting last sold at auction in 1988 for $3.5 million, or $8.5 million today, according to Artnet. “Number 31” has appeared in major Pollock exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York's 1967 show and a 1998 retrospective that ran both at MoMA and at Tate Modern in London.
He painted a total of 363 paintings in his short 44 years of life.
Kylie Minogue is the highest-selling Australian artist of all time, and an unsuspecting gay icon. She rose to fame on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours. Her wedding on the show to Jason Donovan's character was viewed by 20 million people in the UK alone.
The National Gallery's evolving collection of over 155,000 works of art, created by more than 15,000 artists, includes the world's largest collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
Consider finding an appraiser to determine the value of your artwork. Appraisers are trained specialists who work for a fee. They evaluate your piece and give you a written statement of its value. Although the following organizations do not provide appraisals themselves, they each publish a directory of their members.
Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) 1892. The painting sold for $300 million.
Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$970 million in 2022.
mona in British English
(ˈməʊnə ) noun. a W African guenon monkey, Cercopithecus mona, with dark fur on the back and white or yellow underparts. Word origin. C18: from Spanish or Portuguese: monkey.
The Mona Lisa hangs behind bulletproof glass in a gallery of the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it has been a part of the museum's collection since 1804. It was part of the royal collection before becoming the property of the French people during the Revolution (1787–99).
The Last Supper painting is owned by the Italian government. It is not a movable painting, but a mural created directly on the wall of the convent, so it cannot be moved. Therefore, the owner of the convent is the owner of the painting.