Once stolen along with seven other paintings by Cézanne and recovered for a ransom, The Card Players set the record for the most expensive painting ever sold in 2011 when the royal family of ...

One of the most expensive paintings for sale was sold privately in 2011 for $250 million. Adjusted for inflation, the expensive piece now costs $307 million.

Mondrian painted “Composition No. II” in 1930, when he was living in Paris and refined his grid-based abstract art with black lines and primary colors, which he may be best remembered for.

Art Basel and Art Week are often the scene of the sale of outlandishly expensive abstract art that makes novices — meaning most of us — exclaim, “Who would pay that much money for that!” ...