Most expensive paintings (sale prices expressed in dollars and adjusted for inflation):

1. No. 5, 1948, Jackson Pollock: $142.7 million (2006)
2. Woman III, Willem de Kooning: $140.2 million (2006)
3. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Gustav Klimt: $137.6 million (2006)
4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh: $129.7 million (1990)
5. Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: $122.8 million (1990)
6. Garçon à la pipe, Pablo Picasso: $113.4 million (2004)
7. Irises, Vincent van Gogh: $97.5 million (1987)
8. Dora Maar au Chat, Pablo Picasso: $97.0 million (2006)
9. Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe, Vincent van Gogh: $90.1 million (1998)
10. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, Gustav Klimt: $89.1 million (2006)

Japanese industrialist Ryoei Saito bought both #4 and #5 in 1990 and then announced he would have them burned during his cremation. Perhaps fortunately, he later ran into financial difficulties and was forced to sell them.