Art
Top 10 Most Expensive And Best Painting In The World
Wasserschlangen II
Sale Price: $204.2 million
Year: 1904-1907
Sale Date: August 2014
Owner: Anonymous Qatari Princess
The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is most popular for his series of artworks of the “Lady dressed in Gold.” However, Wasserschlangen II or Water Serpents II remains his most costly work to date, selling in 2014 for $204.2 million in changed dollars. This oil painting portrays pictures of water, fish, mermaids, and Klimt’s notable whirls of gem-like gold embellishments. The artwork remembers four figures for all out in a representation of legendary desire that is nearly basically as dubious as the offer of the actual work.
Contention encompassing the artwork’s actual worth stayed a subject of discussion for the past century. Jenny Steiner was the painting’s unique proprietor. She needed to leave the composition behind while escaping Vienna from the Nazis in 1938, after which it was seized. The artwork’s ownership and deal to ensuing Russian authorities have been buried in inquiries of who “as a matter of fact” claims the work. It has been purchased a few times, at long last offered to an anonymous Princess of Qatar in 2014 at this record-breaking cost.