The Picasso Scale of Popularity:

This scale uses Picasso as the example of most popular artist (meaning his prints of artworks sell the most) and then compares other artist's popularity in comparison to total number of sales.

Which means for every 100 copies of Picasso's work that is sold Van Gogh sells approx. 72 copies. (According to Artcyclopedia Poster Sales.)

1. Pablo Picasso 100
2. Vincent van Gogh 72
3. Leonardo da Vinci 61
4. Claude Monet 52
5. Andy Warhol 43
6. Salvador Dali 43
7. Henri Matisse 40
8. Georgia O'Keeffe 35
9. Wassily Kandinsky 30
10. Rembrandt 27
11. Paul Cezanne 27
12. Goya 26
13. Gustav Klimt 25
14. Rene Magritte 25
15. Edgar Degas 24
16. Joan Miro 24
17. Michelangelo 23
18. Frida Kahlo 23
19. Jackson Pollock 23
20. Raphael 22
21. Peter Paul Rubens 22
22. Titian 22
23. Marc Chagall 21
24. Diego Velazquez 21
25. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 21
26. Diego Rivera 21
27. Paul Klee 21
28. Edward Hopper 20
29. Edouard Manet 20
30. Piet Mondrian 20

Norton Simon's 11 Greatest Paintings in History

1. Francisco de Zurbaran - Still Life: Lemons, Oranges and a Rose - 1633
2. Raphael - Madonna and Child with Book - c.1504
3. Rembrandt - Portrait of the Artist's Son, Titus - 1653-54
4. Vincent Van Gogh - Portrait of a Peasant - 1888
5. Jacopo Bassano - Flight into Egypt - c.1540
6. Giovanni di Paolo - The Branchini Madonna - 1427
7. Pablo Picasso - Woman with Book - 1932
8. Paul Cezanne - Tulips in a Vase - c.1890-92
9. Filippo Lippi - Saints Benedict and Apollonia - c.1483
10. Filippo Lippi - Saints Paul and Frediano - c.1493
11. Edgar Degas - The Ironers - c.1884

Andrew Wyeth's 8 Greatest American Paintings

1. Winslow Homer - Fox Hunt - 1893
2. Fitz Hugh Lane - Riverdale - 1863
3. Charles Willson Peale - Colonel George Washington - 1772
4. Thomas Eakins - Hunting - 1874
5. Albert Pinkham Ryder - The Race Track - 1910
6. Grant Wood - Daughters of Revolution - 1932
7. Edward Hicks - Noah's Ark - 1846
8. George Caleb Bingham - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri - 1845

Education Opportunities to Study More Art History

The University of Delaware has built up a substantial list of links to all things related to art history.

Online programs in art history and the humanities are a great way to become further educated.