$140 million: Most ever paid for a work of art (“No. 5, 1948,” an 8- by 4-foot mural by Jackson Pollack, sold Nov. 2, 2006)

$137.5 million: Amount paid in November for “Woman III,” a painting by Willem de Kooning

$135 million: Amount paid in June for “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” by Gustav Klimt

$670 million: Estimated worth of Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in 2006 dollars

Sources: Wikipedia and Guinness Book of World Records