Priceless art, what price would you put on it?

I thought I would ask the forum members if they had unlimited money, which pricless art they thought was most vaulable and what price they would put on it.

Highest priced painting sell for 100 million plus. My feeling is out of the choices above, I think the King Tut's gold mask would fetch the highest dollar. My estimate is 700 million if it came up for auction. This is a total guess. It has 24 lbs of gold which at todays scrap metal price would be worth $567000.

This is a very hard choice for me. Those dogs playing poker or a velvet Elvis. Both are truly priceless.

What could I get it for at a yard sale? That's the price.

I don't really purchase art. Most of the stuff up in our house are pictures of me and my wife. I would cap what I would spend on a piece of art at $100.

Quote: AceCrAAckers

Highest priced painting sell for 100 million plus. My feeling is out of the choices above, I think the King Tut's gold mask would fetch the highest dollar. My estimate is 700 million if it came up for auction. This is a total guess. It has 24 lbs of gold which at todays scrap metal price would be worth $567000.

At somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of a billion dollars this painting of two card players was bought by the Royal Family of Qatar It was painted by Cézanne somewhere between 1892 and 1893 as one in a series of four.


The Mona Lisa was insured for $100 million 40 years ago. Today it is not insured as the French government would rather spend the money on security systems instead of insurance premiums. It is theoretically valued at over a billion dollars.

I think that the statue of David by Michelangelo would command more than the mask of King Tut.

Theoretically, some of Greece's priceless statues could come up for sale to help relieve the national debt. One of the most famous is this 2500 year old scultpure of either Zeus or Poseidon (no one is sure).

beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, when it comes to art.
this sold for $140M in 2006:

No. 5. 1948 Jackson Pollock

Quote: WongBo

beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, when it comes to art.
this sold for $140M in 2006:

I've seen cat vomit that was more aesthetically pleasing.

Let me be honest on the Mona Lisa. I don't get it. I don't really even like it. Why do people wait for hours to see it? I don't find it exceptionally beautiful, if you gave it to me to hang on my wall (iow, I could not sell it) I would give it to somebody else.

I wonder how many people like it because, well, it is famous and you are supposed to like it.

I'd rather have some impressionist work, or a contempory Peter Max piece.

Quote: AceCrAAckers

I thought I would ask the forum members if they had unlimited money, which pricless art they thought was most vaulable and what price they would put on it.

Highest priced painting sell for 100 million plus. My feeling is out of the choices above, I think the King Tut's gold mask would fetch the highest dollar. My estimate is 700 million if it came up for auction. This is a total guess. It has 24 lbs of gold which at todays scrap metal price would be worth $567000.

Just thought I'd point out that 24lbs of gold is closer to $470,000. 1 pound = 12 troy ounces which is what the gold prices are based on.

Quote: AZDuffman

Let me be honest on the Mona Lisa. I don't get it. I don't really even like it.

I just mentioned the Mona Lisa, because it is the only piece of priceless art that I could find some sort of estimated value.

Personally, I think that the Statue of David would command the highest price of any artwork. If for no other reason than women are tired of looking at men who are built like:

5 priceless works of art destroyed by unintentional hilarity

i voted for king tut, having seen him in person twice in 77 and 10.
have not seen the others personally.