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Top 10 Best Selling Oil Paintings for 2006

OverstockArt.com has officially released the annual “Top 10 Best Sellers of the Art and Oil Painting World” ranking for 2006.

This report is a great way to follow what are the hippest, most desirable paintings on the market. This can be especially helpful for offices that need to keep up with the changing trends to impress customers and clients.

The Top 10 oil paintings sold online according to OverstockArt.com are:

  1. Starry Night – Vincent Van Gogh
  2. Cafe Terrace at Night – Vincent Van Gogh
  3. The Kiss – Gustav Klimt
  4. Poppy Field at Argenteuil – Claude Monet
  5. Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dali
  6. The Dream – Pablo Picasso
  7. Artist’s Garden at Giverny – Claude Monet
  8. Irises – Vincent Van Gogh
  9. Sunflowers – Vincent Van Gogh
  10. Farbstudie Quadrate – Wassily Kandinsky

It’s interesting to see how the old masters are still the most sought-after artists even on the internet. I guess through our two-dimensional monitor we can still sense a true classic.

About the Author

Amitai Sasson of overstockArt.com is an art world traveler on a mission to seek out the beauty and passion of the art world. As an avid enthusiast of art and oil paintings, he contributes to ArtCorner.com as Chief editor and writer.