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Art sales slow in downturns resulting in the market becoming more illiquid. There is a greater degree of liquidity risk facing the art investor than with other financial assets because there is a limited pool of potential buyers, and with artworks not reaching their reserve prices and not being sold, this has an effect on the auction prices. [11]
April 19 – Picasso is introduced by American photographer David Douglas Duncan to his dachshund Lump who becomes Picasso's companion and subject in paintings. [1] May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee painting. [2] His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters, or Sluyters (17 December 1881 in 's-Hertogenbosch – 8 May 1957 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and co-founder of the Moderne Kunstkring. Sluijters (in English often spelled "Sluyters") was a leading pioneer of various Post-Impressionist movements in the Netherlands. [ 1 ]
Frank V. Dudley (November 14, 1868 – March 5, 1957) was an American landscape painter, known especially for his paintings of scenes in the Indiana Dunes.. Dudley was born in Delavan, Wisconsin, but he spent most of his life in the Chicago area.
Dean Mitchell (born 1957) is an American figurative artist who works primarily in watercolor and oil paint. His subjects, derived largely from African American culture, have been cited for their emotional depth, avoidance of facile sentimentality, and accomplished sense of formal design.
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
The Boucher Nude is a 1957 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting is a nude , depicting a woman lying on a sofa. [ 1 ] Sasha Grishin , the William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University claimed that " The Boucher Nude can be justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces in Australian art."