Top three highest known prices paid for a painting!

#3

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for $135,000,000 in 2006

#2

Willem de Kooning's Woman III sold for $137,500,000 in 2006.

and the #1 highest price paid for a painting goes too..

Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948 sold for $140,000,000 in 2006. (good year for art dealers)