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Group of Courtesans, Sikh Empire 1800–1825, 26 cm × 31.2 cm (10.2 in × 12.3 in) opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Company style, also known as Company painting [1] (Hindi: kampani kalam) is a term for a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in British India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the East India Company or other foreign Companies in the ...
Christie's Fine Art Storage Services, or CFASS, is a wholly owned subsidiary that runs Christie's storage operation. In September 2008, Christie's signed a 50-year lease on an early 1900s warehouse of the historic N.Y.D. Company [ 123 ] in Red Hook, Brooklyn , and subsequently spent $30M converting it into a six-storey, 250,000 square feet ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the world’s most famous paintings is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Called “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” this painting has inspired countless ...
Wildenstein & Company, a private art dealership, was founded in Paris by Nathan Wildenstein in the mid-19th century and run by his family ever since. [1] The Wildenstein Institute , established by Nathan's son Georges , maintains one of the largest art history reference libraries in the world.
The history of Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas. Korean painting, as an independent form, began around 108 B.C., around the fall of Gojoseon, making it one of the oldest in the world.
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 painting commissioned by the East India Company was a tribute to the British Empire. The East India Company offers its riches to Britannia. The painting symbolizes the British Empire's imperial colonial domination over the world. Paintings depicting colonization were a popular theme among painters during the period of colonization.