5.

Bal Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir ($78,000,000)

EXPENSIVE PAINTING

Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre was painted by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1876. On
May 17, 1990, it was sold for $ 78,000,000 at Sotheby's in New York City to Ryoei Saito, who bought it
together with the Portrait of Dr Gachet (see above).