Somebody buys a daVinci painting for $450 million. So affronted by such an ostentatious display of wealth that does not, in fact, purchase every remaining Lancia Stratos instead, here's a quck ten much better paintings that you can visit for free if you're a kid or for a small admission fee if not at the best damn art musuem on the planet (or galaxy, if you're a born and raised Chicagoan with the requisite modest pride in your hometown). Off the top of my head (and thus subject to revision) ...
10. Landscape IV - Roy Lichtenstein
9. Paris Street: Rainy Day - Gustave Caillebotte
8. (tie) Greyed Rainbow - Jackson Pollock, Self Portrait - Vincent van Gogh
7. American Gothic - Grant Wood
6. Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare - Claude Monet
5. The Herring Net - Winslow Homer
4. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat
3. Sky Above Clouds IV - Georgia O’ Keefe
2. America Windows - Marc Chagall (I know, not a painting. Doesn't matter. See: Ferris and Sloane)
1. Nighthawks - Ed Hopper