Download Pablo Picasso Most Expensive Painting Background. Pablo picasso is unarguably one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. N***, green leaves and bust currently holds the world record for being the highest priced painting to ever be auctioned.
When pablo picasso's masterpiece, les femmes d'alger, sold for $179 million (£116 million) in new york on monday night, it smashed the but even so it is still far from the most expensive painting of all time.
A painting by pablo picasso has set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at auction after reaching $179m (£115m) in new york. Previously the most expensive work sold at auction was francis bacon's triptych three studies of lucian freud, which sold for $142.4m at. Pablo picasso is unarguably one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Bought by griffin along with pollock's number 17a for a total of $500 million ($300 for the de 8.