Record price paid for When Will You Marry? by Paul Gauguin, sold for $300 million in 2015.

 When Will You Marry?

by Paul Gauguin, sold for $300 million in 2015.

 

The sale was also significant in that for the first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it. Since that time sales of the most valuable paintings have usually been made at auctions though that had by no means always been the case before, and the list below still shows some "private sales