2. No. 5, 1948

Painter: Jackson Pollock

Auctioned Price: $140 million

One of the known personas from the ‘Abstract Expressionist Movement’, Jackson Pollock painted this masterpiece in 1948. This is an 8x4’ painting. He completed this painting on a fiberboard using brown and yellow paints.

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr owned this painting and it was on display at the Museum of Modern Art. On November, 2006, this painting was purchased by David Martinez in an undisclosed auction for $140 million.

However, there are lots of controversies over the ownership of this masterpiece.

1. The Card Players, 1890

Painter: Paul Cézanne

Auctioned Price: $267.4 million

‘The Card Players’, created by French artist Paul Cézanne, created history on April, 2011 after it was auctioned for $267.4 million to the Royal Family of Qatar.

This painting was completed in the early 1890s. Originally, it was one of the paintings from a series of five paintings. All the versions came in different sizes and the numbers of card players were also different. Of the paintings from this series, created history in 2011 after it was auctioned for more than $250 million. 

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