Scribbles that cost millions of dollars

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars

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For ordinary people who are not versed in art, painting seems to be something beautiful and incomprehensibly beautiful. They would rather understand the colorful landscape of a summer forest than someone's severed ear depicted in a self-portrait. Moreover, for them, the pictures remain incomprehensible, which, in their humble opinion, they could well draw themselves.

Here are 10 paintings that have been sold for huge sums and look like you would walk right by without realizing they are millions of dollars worth of art.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Woman III was sold for $137.5 million in 2006.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Van Gogh's "Vase with 15 Sunflowers" sold for $39.7 million in 1987.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Pierre Auguste Renoir's Ball at the Moulin de la Galette was sold for $78 million in 1990.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Paul Cezanne's The Card Players was sold for $250 million in 2012.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Mark Rothko's painting "No. 1" was sold in 2012 for $75.1 million.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Leonardo da Vinci's The Savior of the World was sold in 2013 for $127.5 million.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Willem de Kooning's The Exchange was sold for $300 million in 2015.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Jasper Johns painting "False Start" was sold in 2006 for $80 million.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollars Jackson Pollock's painting No. 5 was sold for $140 million in 2005.

Scribbles that cost millions of dollarsBarnett Newman's Onement VI sold for $43.8 million in 2013.

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