Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Top Ten Most Expensive Painting : #3 by Renoir


. Bal au moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

$110,420,000


Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. There are two versions of this painting with the same name: the larger one is located at the Musee dOrsay in Paris, while the smaller version was sold on May 17, 1990 for $78 million at Sotheby's in New York City, New York to Ryoei Saito, who bought it together with the Portrait of Dr Gachet.
Bal au moulin de la Galette was also in danger to be cremated with Saito together with the van Gogh

Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)
1892
1893

 La Grenouillère, 1868,National MuseumStockholm, Sweden

1918

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