This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The world's most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless.

20. Le Bassin aux Nymphéas by Claude Monet - $79.8 million

19. Turquoise Marilyn by Andy Warhol - $83.4 million

18. Yo, Picasso by Pablo Picasso - $83.8 million

17. Les Noces de Pierrette by Pablo Picasso - $84.9 million

16. A Wheatfield with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh - $85.7 million

15. False Start by Jasper Johns - $85.9 million

14. Triptych, 1976 by Francis Bacon - $86.3 million

13. Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens - $92.3 million

12. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II by Gustav Klimt - $94.5 million

11. Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe by Vincent van Gogh - $94.5 million

10. Eight Elvises by Andy Warhol - $100.1 million

9. Irises by Vincent van Gogh - $101.2 million

8. Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso - $101.9 million

7. Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh - $100.9++ million

6. Garçon à la pipe by Pablo Picasso - $119 million

5. Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - $131 million

4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh - $138.4 million

3. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt - $144.2 million

2. Woman III by Willem de Kooning - $147.9 million

1. No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - $150.6 million

Source: List of the Most Expensive Paintings