The most expensive painter alive, by György Palagyi

    Based on abstract painting, the  German painter Gerhard Richter, broke every record in 2012, when, according to Sotheby's auction house, Richter sold his " Abstraktes Bild " with the stunning amount of 30.5 million dollars.

    Then, with the sale of “Domplatz Mailand”, he became the most expensive living artist.The artist  whose work was sold in 2013 for 37.1 million dollars at Sotheby's in New York.

    These two sales put him on the highest step of the podium as the best-selling living artist. The buyer of the second work, is Don Bryant, owner of vineyards in the United States, who says that painting "turned him around ".