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Van Gogh Starry Night Most Popular Oil Painting

The popular online art gallery, overstockArt.com, revealed today the annual Top 10 Oil Paintings rankings for 2009. Topping the list is Vincent van Gogh’s irrefutable magnum opus, Starry Night.

Van Gogh’s Starry Night reclaims its title as the world’s most popular oil painting a year after Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss snatched the title away. According to overstockArt.com’s statistics, van Gogh has the top two most popular oil paintings in the world, with Starry Night in the first place and Café Terrace at Night in second. “Van Gogh consistently remains the most popular artist in the world, his total sales numbers have left everyone well behind,” said David Sasson, CEO of overstockArt.com.

The top oil paintings sold online according to overstockArt.com are:

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TOP SELLING OIL PAINTINGS
Most popular art on the plannet:		 courtesy of overstockArt.com
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RANK ARTIST MASTERPIECE
#1 Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night
#2 Vincent Van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night
#3 Gustav Klimt The Kiss
#4 Claude Monet Poppy Field at Argenteuil
#5 Pierre Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party
#6 Claude Monet Garden Path at Giverny
#7 Pablo Picasso The Rest
#8 Georgia O’Keeffe Red Cannas
#9 Wassily Kandinsky Farbstudie Quadrate (Color Study of Squares)
#10 Pablo Picasso The Dream

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According to Sasson, the Top 10 list is released annually due to popular demand. “A lot of people want to know what’s selling best because it helps them stay up to speed with the latest trends and allows them to know which paintings are the hippest and most desirable on the market.”

“In the business world especially, where the image is everything, many companies strive to keep up with the latest interior décor trends to maintain a modern appeal that will impress customers and clients,” said Sasson.

Van Gogh’s masterpiece, Starry Night, was created in 1889. To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the creation, overstockArt.com developed a special rendition of the masterpiece in deep oil paint. This special version of Starry Night was created by overstockArt.com over the course of a year, it took seven months to dry and weighs over 18 pounds. This distinctive one-of-a-kind 36″ X 48″ reproduction of Starry Night is available to purchase for $2,458. The conventional 20″ X 24″ reproduction is $119.

In 2009 overstockArt.com sold more than 45,000 oil paintings. They are one of the Web’s most successful distributors of wall décor items with over 10,000 daily visitors and 100,000 loyal customers.

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.