What is the most overrated famous artwork?

Queues, crowds and a shrinking sense of wonder. These are the works everyone photographs and plenty of people quietly regret travelling for.

1

Mona Lisa

Small, dim and behind glass at the end of a 20,000-a-day queue — the Louvre is building it a separate room.

2

Campbell's Soup Cans

Warhol's 32 canvases of soup tins, endlessly reproduced and endlessly argued over.

3

Fountain

Duchamp's 1917 urinal, signed R. Mutt — the original is lost and every version is a replica.

4

The Scream

Munch's howling figure, now a phone emoji and a poster before it is a painting.

5

Balloon Dog

Koons's mirror-polished steel balloon animal, made in five colours and priced like a house.

6

Comedian

Cattelan's banana duct-taped to a wall, sold in 2019 and eaten more than once since.

7

The Persistence of Memory

Dalí's melting clocks, a dorm-room poster long before it was a Surrealist landmark.

8

Black Square

Malevich's 1915 black square, the painting most often met with 'my child could do that'.

9

The Physical Impossibility of Death

Hirst's tiger shark in formaldehyde, which had to be replaced when the first one rotted.

10

Manneken Pis

Brussels' urinating boy: 61 centimetres tall and permanently ringed by disappointed tourists.

11

The Little Mermaid

Copenhagen's harbour statue, routinely voted the most underwhelming sight in Scandinavia.

12

American Gothic

Grant Wood's farm couple, worn smooth by a century of parody.

13

The Kiss

Klimt's gilded embrace, sold as fridge magnets in every museum shop on the continent.

14

Girl with a Balloon

Banksy's stencil, which shredded itself at auction and promptly became worth more.