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According to Ruben C. Cordova, curator of his 2009 retrospective at the Museo Alameda, he was beloved [1] as well as famous within San Antonio: [3] "Jesse Treviño was far and away the most famous artist San Antonio ever produced. His renown greatly transcended the art world: he was the hometown hero par excellence.
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.
Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. Garçon à la pipe sold for US$104 million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004. Dora Maar au Chat sold for US$95.2 million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006. [130] On 4 May 2010, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold at Christie's for US$106.5 million.
Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Henry Koons and Nancy Loomis.His father [7] was a furniture dealer and interior decorator. His mother was a seamstress. [8] When he was nine years old, his father would place old master paintings that Koons copied and signed in the window of his shop in an attempt to attract visitors. [9]
The Met's Asian department holds a collection of Asian art, of more than 35,000 pieces, [24] that is arguably the most comprehensive in the US. The collection dates back almost to the founding of the museum: many of the philanthropists who made the earliest gifts to the museum included Asian art in their collections.
The Marilyn Diptych is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe. The monumental work is one of the artist's most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. [2] Each image of the actress is taken from the single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953).
Thomson's most famous paintings are his depictions of pine trees, particularly The Jack Pine and The West Wind. David Silcox has described these paintings as "the visual equivalent of a national anthem, for they have come to represent the spirit of the whole country, notwithstanding the fact that vast tracts of Canada have no pine trees", [ 179 ...
Pratt met artist Mary West at Mount Allison University. [18] They married in 1957 and had five children: John, Anne, Barbara, Ned, and David, who died in infancy. [19] The couple divorced in 2004. [19] He later married Jeanette Meehan, who was his studio assistant, in 2007; they divorced in 2016. [20]