Category: oil painting on canvas, 100x8 1cm.
Author: Picasso
Auction price:1.045438+USD 68 million.
Price ranking: No.1 in the world
Creation time: 1905
Auction time: May 5, 2004
1950, Betsy * 8226; Ms Whitney spent $30,000 on this painting. More than 50 years later, in order to raise charitable funds, she handed it over to Sotheby's auction house for auction. On May 5, 2004, the auction was held as scheduled, with a reserve price of $55 million. No one expected that the final transaction price would reach more than one billion!
Although works of art are priceless, there is only one word to describe the sales of paintings-pervert! This adjective can also be applied to other famous paintings with sky-high prices. A good work can sell for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions. Once it exceeds this number, it basically has nothing to do with art or aesthetics, and it is completely a "commodity".
In the eyes of ordinary people, if the person who invested hundreds of millions of yuan to buy The Boy with a Pipe is not out of investment considerations, there are only two possibilities. One is that people have too much money to spend, and the other is that people have psychological problems! Imagine, who in his right mind would spend nearly 10 billion yuan to buy a painting? So much money, let alone flat, even if you buy a live "boy with a pipe", you can buy a lot!
Hearing such a tinkling astronomical figure, it is estimated that the painters who are still alive are a little confused except envy, but everyone is basically holding back, afraid of losing all their money. It was recently discovered that consumption is not a luxury in Chen Danqing's Take a Step Back. Answering the article "Question of Urban Consumption News" talked about this matter. He said: "Is buying and selling art a luxury? I just had an interview the other day about whether a painting by Picasso is worth 100 million dollars. It may be a collection, it may be an investment, or it may be pure madness. I'm not sure, but it's not a consumption. Consumption is the business of most people. How many people can spend millions on art? "
Title: Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Author: Van Gogh
Auction price: $82.5 million
Price ranking: second in the world
Creation time: 1890
Auction time: 1990
Title: The Ball at Moulin Rouge
Author: Renoir
Auction price: more than $7,865,438 million
Price ranking: the fourth in the world
Auction time: 1990
Name: Slaughtering innocent people
Author: Rubens
Auction price: 49.5 million pounds
Price ranking: the sixth in the world
Auction time: 2005
Top Ten Famous Paintings with High Price in the World (before 2006)
1, The Boy with a Pipe by Picasso, 1.4 1.6 million dollars;
2. Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, $82.5 million;
3. Rubens' Beating a Baby, 73.5 million euros;
4. The Ball at Moulin Rouge by Renoir, 7,865,438+10,000 USD.
5. Van Gogh's Self-portrait without a beard, 710.5 million US dollars;
6. Rubens' Slaughter of Innocent People, 49.5 million pounds;
7. Cezanne's Still Life, $60.5 million.
8. Picasso's "Woman with Arms Holding Chest", $55.6 million;
9. Van Gogh's iris, $53.9 million;
10, Picasso's Piette wedding, 5 1.65 million USD.