Which are the 5 most expensive paintings sold at an auction?

After Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Christ, Salvator Mundi, smashed the record for the most expensive painting sold at auction, we take a look at some of the ... #MiddayShowWithIfy #WorldOfLifestyle “Worlds most expensive paintings” – No. ... 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | (1948) | sold for $140m (€118.8m). read more

All it took was a little over 8 minutes to set the record price for a piece of art sold at auction. On May 4, Christie's sold Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, a painting created in the span of a single day in 1932, for $106.5 million dollars. The painting, which is of Picasso's lover Marie-Therese Walter, was previously owned by a California philanthropist. read more

Most expensive artworks sold at auction Da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" holds the record for the most expensive work of art to go under the hammer, rather than to be sold privately. But Munch and Van Gogh also make the list. read more

Facts . A mysterious unidentified telephone bidder bought "The Scream" (later rumoured to be Leon David Black, an American businessman). The auction set a record for the most expensive piece of art ever to be auctioned to date. read more