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A look at record art auction prices

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Only eight works have sold at auction for more than $80 million. One of the art world's most recognizable images - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - could top that amount when it is auctioned at Sotheby's on Wednesday.

The pieces that have reached record prices, the artist, the auction date, the auction house, and the price are:

-"Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," Pablo Picasso, May 4, 2010, CNY; $106,482,500 (>70,278,450).

-"L'Homme quia marche I," cast in 1961, Alberto Giacometti, Feb. 3, 2010, SLON; $104,327,006 (>65,001,250).

-"Garon la Pipe," 1905, Pablo Picasso, May 5, 2004, SNY; $104,168,000 (>58,052,830).

-"Dora Maar au chat," 1941, Pablo Picasso, May 3, 2006, SNY; $95,216,000 (>51,560,080).

-"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II," 1912, Gustav Klimt, Nov. 8, 2006, CNY; $87,936,000 (>46,282,105).

-"Triptych," 1976, Francis Bacon, May 14, 2008, SNY; $86,281,000 (>44,403,788).

-"Portrait du Dr. Gachet," 1890, Vincent van Gogh, May 15, 1990, CNY; $82,500,000 (>49,005,049).

-"Le basin aux nymphas," 1919, Claude Monet, June 24, 2008, CLON; $80,379,591 (>40,921,250).

Source: Sotheby's

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