Painted in 1611, Massacre represents a scene from the Bible’s Gospel According to Matthew.

Van Gogh’s self-portrait.

Picasso’s portrait of his then-mistress Dora Maar.

Van Gogh’s most valuable landscape.

The “boy at the pipe” is Picasso’s most highly priced painting.

This painting was sold in 1990 to Ryoei Saito, the chairman of a Japanese paper company

Van Gogh’s most expensive painting to date.

Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer took three years to create in oil and gold.

Woman III by Willem de Kooning was among six painted by the artist between 1951 and 1953.

When sold by David Geffen in 2006, it became the world’s most expensive painting in history at a price-adjusted $149.70 million dollars.