2. The collector’s point of reference  When added together, the 10 paintings you are about to see sold for a total of $1,160,100,000 or 1.1 billion dollars at auction!  This is nearly double the profit made from Titanic, the top grossing film of all time.  1.1 billion dollars could also buy 18 Boeing 757 jumbo jets.  Based on a price average, 1.1 billion dollars would purchase a mere 929,000 iPods!

3. “Number 5, 1948” Jackson Pollock $140 million “Woman III” Willem de Kooning $137.1 million

4. “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” Gustav Klimt $135 million “Garcon a la Pipe” Pablo Picasso $104.1 million

5. “Dora Maar au Chat” Pablo Picasso $95.2 million “Adele Bloch Bauer II” Gustav Klimt $87.9 million

6. “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” Vincent Van Gogh $82.5 million “False Start” Jaspar Johns $80 million

7. “Le Moulin de la Galette” Auguste Renoir $78.1 million “Massacre of the Innocents” Peter Paul Rubens $76.7 million

8. “White Center” Mark Rothko $72.8 million “Green Car Crash” Andy Warhol $71.7 million

9. “Portrait of Alfonso d’ Avalos” Titian $70 million “The Gross Clinic” Thomas Eakins $68 million