Know about world's 10 most expensive Paintings

New Delhi: As it is said "A single picture can speak more than thousand words", here we have the collection of world's most expensive paintings which make this phrase true.Since ages, people have been art lovers and as a result we have seen some of the most wonderful creations by the painters for their admirers.All we require a bit of imagination and interest to understand the message behind these paintings, which adds on to the wind-fall of the prices of the painting.Let's look at the world's most expensive paintings and find out the reasons which make them fall into this category.The Card Players by Paul Cézanne $269.4 million The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne.The series is considered by critics to be a cornerstone of Cézanne's art during the early-to-mid 1890s period, as well as a "prelude" to his final years, when he painted some of his most acclaimed work Each painting depicts Provençal peasants immersed in smoking their pipes and playing cards.The subjects, all male, are displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on the game at hand.No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock $162.7 million No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. The painting was done on an 8' × 4' sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance.Woman III by Willem de Kooning $159.8 million Woman III is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Woman III is one of a series of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme was a woman. and was completed in 1953Le Rêve by Pablo Picasso $155.9 million Le Rêve "The Dream"is a 1932 oil paintingby Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932.It belongs to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism.Portrait of Adele Bloch by Bauer I-Gustav Klimt $155.8 million This painting, which took three years to complete, was commissioned by the wealthy industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who made his money in the sugar industry. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the only person to be painted twice by Klimt.This painting is perhaps most famous not for its artistic quality, but because of its scandalous history since inception.Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh $149.5 million Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It depicts Dr. Paul Gachet who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life.There are two authenticated versions of the portrait, both painted in June 1890 at Auvers. Both show Doctor Gachet sitting at a table and leaning his head on his right arm but they are easily differentiated in color and style.Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon $142.4 million Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud.All three panels, in Bacon's typical abstract, distorted, isolated style, show Freud sitting on a cane-bottomed wooden chair within a cage, on a curved mottled-brown surface with a solid orange background.Behind each figure is a headboard of a bed, originating in a set of photographs of Freud by John Deakin which Bacon used as a reference.Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir $141.5 million Bal du moulin de la Galette commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galetteis an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris.In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening.Garçon à la pipe by Pablo Picasso $129.0 million Garçon à la Pipe in English Boy with a Pipe is a painting by Pablo Picasso. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.The Scream by Edvard Munch $122.2 million The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky.Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time.