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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer – Gustav Klimt1344

The worldwide ranking generated by 1.5k votes

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer – Gustav Klimt1344

The Scream – Edvard Munch1334

Water Serpents II – Gustav Klimt1329

Portrait of Dr. Gachet – Vincent van Gogh1283

When Will You Marry? – Paul Gauguin1245

The Card Players – Paul Cézanne1235

The Standard Bearer – Rembrandt1219

Haystacks – Claude Monet1216

The Women of Algiers – Pablo Picasso1194

#10

The Dream – Pablo Picasso1181

#11

Portrait of Marten Soolmans and Portrait of Oopjen Coppit – Rembrandt1171

#12

Salvator Mundi – Leonardo da Vinci1164

#13

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn – Andy Warhol1161

#14

Interchange – Willem de Kooning1155

#15

Reclining Nude – Amedeo Modigliani1153

#16

Three Studies of Lucian Freud – Francis Bacon1142

#17

Woman III – Willem de Kooning1133

#18

Woman with a Watch – Pablo Picasso1133

#19

The Origin of the World – Gustave Courbet1115

#20

Number 17A – Jackson Pollock1094

What the community says

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer – Gustav Klimt leads with an ELO of 1,344, ahead of The Scream – Edvard Munch (1,334) and Water Serpents II – Gustav Klimt (1,329). Ranked over 1,474 duels between 20 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

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How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.