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What are the 20 most expensive paintings ever sold?

Here is a list of the 20 most expensive paintings ever sold as of 2006.

	Painting	Artist	Price (in millions)	Date of sale
1	No. 5, 1948	Jackson Pollack	$140	Nov 2 2006
2	Woman III	Willem de Kooning	$137.5	Nov 2006
3	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	Gustav Klimt	$135	Jun 18 2006
4	Garçon à la pipe	Pablo Picasso	$104.1	May 4 2004
5	Dora Maar au Chat	Pablo Picasso	$95.2	May 3 2006
6	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II	Gustav Klimt	$87.936	Nov 8 2006
7	Portrait of Dr. Gachet	Vincent Van Gogh	$82.5	May 15 1990
8	False Start	Jasper Johns	$80.0	Oct 12 2006
9	Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	$78	May 17 1990
10	Massacre of the Innocents	Peter Paul Rubens	$76.7 (£49.5)	Jul 10 2002
11	Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe	Vincent Van Gogh	$65	Nov 19, 1998
12	Police Gazette (1955)	Willem de Kooning	$63.5	Oct 12 2006
13	Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier	Paul Cézanne	$60.5	May 10 1999
14	A Wheatfield with Cypresses	Vincent Van Gogh	$57	1993
15	Femme aux Bras Croisés	Pablo Picasso	$55	Nov 8, 2000
16	Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat	Vincent Van Gogh	$55 ↑	Oct 2005
17	The Bathers	Paul Gauguin	$55 ↑	Oct 2005
18	Irises	Vincent Van Gogh	$53.9	Nov 11, 1987
19	Femme assise dans un jardin	Pablo Picasso	$49.6	Nov 10, 1999
20	Les Noces de Pierrette	Pablo Picasso	$49.3	Nov 30, 1989

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