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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Salvator Mundi by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1500) This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Nobody Asked's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017, [1] [2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City.
The chief compilations dealing with art sales in Great Britain are: G. Redford, Art Sales (1888); and W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's (1897); other books containing much important matter are W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting; The Year's Art (1880 and each succeeding year); F. S. Robinson, The Connoisseur; and Louis Soullié, Les Ventes de ...
Modigliani’s nudes have a storied history. In the artist’s first and only solo exhibition that took place in Paris in 1917, the French police labeled his nude paintings obscene, and his show ...
A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours: Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1891). The ideals of painting by J. Comyns Carr (New York, Macmillan, 1917). An Art history focusing on the ideals that inspired European artists throughout the ages.
Art and Illusion; Art by Women in Florence; Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties; Art Deco of the 20s and 30s; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (book) Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci; Arts of Mankind; The Automatic Message
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Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [ 15 ] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.