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The business was founded in 1888 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, by Godfrey Hirst, an English immigrant from Meltham, West Yorkshire, England. His Excelsior Mill, on the north bank of the Barwon River , manufactured various wool textiles until it was sold in the 1966, continuing in operation as Godfrey Hirst Carpets. [ 2 ]
Damien Hirst by-passed galleries and sold his new work at auction. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever was a two-day auction of new work at Sotheby's, London, taking place on 15 and 16 September 2008. [1] It was unusual as Damien Hirst bypassed galleries and sold directly to the public. [2] The sale raised £111 million ($198 million) for 218 ...
The Murderme collection, which Hirst has been acquiring since the late 1980s, contains over 3,000 works and features art by Francis Bacon, Banksy, Tracey Emin, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Haim Steinbach and Gavin Turk, as well as a number of young and emerging artists such as Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville [8] [9] and a significant ...
The belief that Saint Sebastian was a defense against the plague was a medieval addition to his reputation, which largely accounts for the enormous increase in his importance in the Late Middle Ages. [18]
No. 2 was first performed by Straube at that organ on 28 April 1901, [2] and repeated on 12 May 1901 at the Garnisonkirche in Berlin. [3] No. 3 was first performed by Straube on 9 November 1901 at the Walcker organ of the Kaim-Saal in Munich. [2] The duration is given as 16–17 min. for No. 1, 17–19 min. for No. 2, 15–17 min for No. 3. [2]
William Joseph Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author.He initially achieved fame in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections.
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
3D models of Goya's work. They began their own collaboration in 1991. The brothers have often made pieces with plastic models or fibreglass mannequins of people. An early piece consisted of eighty-three scenes of torture and disfigurement derivative of those recorded by Francisco Goya in his series of etchings, The Disasters of War (a work they later returned to) rendered into small three ...