Scribbles that cost millions of dollars
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/scribbles-that-cost-millions-of-dollars.htmlFor 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.
Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Woman III was sold for $137.5 million in 2006.
Van Gogh's "Vase with 15 Sunflowers" sold for $39.7 million in 1987.
Pierre Auguste Renoir's Ball at the Moulin de la Galette was sold for $78 million in 1990.
Paul Cezanne's The Card Players was sold for $250 million in 2012.
Mark Rothko's painting "No. 1" was sold in 2012 for $75.1 million.
Leonardo da Vinci's The Savior of the World was sold in 2013 for $127.5 million.
Willem de Kooning's The Exchange was sold for $300 million in 2015.
Jasper Johns painting "False Start" was sold in 2006 for $80 million.
Jackson Pollock's painting No. 5 was sold for $140 million in 2005.
Barnett Newman's Onement VI sold for $43.8 million in 2013.
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