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The painting was the centerpiece of Wynn's art collection and was displayed at his Las Vegas casino. The arranged price of $139 million would make Le Rêve the most expensive art sale of the time. The day after the price deal, while showing the painting to reporters, Wynn accidentally elbowed it, creating a significant tear.
The painting echoes the subject and treatment of Rembrandt's famous Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632; in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands), and other earlier depictions of public surgery such as the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the Quack Physicians' Hall (c. 1730) by the Dutch ...
Graham Redgrave-Rust was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1942. He studied drawing and painting at the Regent Street Art School, the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and the National Academy of Art in New York. [1] For two years he worked as an artist on Architectural Forum for Time Inc.
The Gross Clinic is painted in oil on canvas, and is 240 cm × 200 cm (8 ft × 6.5 ft). It portrays surgeon Dr. Samuel D. Gross, the first chief of surgery at Jefferson Medical College, performing surgery on a young man for osteomyelitis of the femur in the surgical amphitheater on the top floor of Jefferson's Ely Building in the company of multiple doctors and medical students.
The same painting had been stolen from the same museum on June 4, 1977, and was recovered ten years later [14] in Kuwait. [15] The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm, and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. [16] It is believed that van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. [14] $50–55,000,000 [11] ¥100,000,000
The Gross Clinic or The Clinic of Dr. Gross is an 1875 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins.It is oil on canvas and measures 8 feet (240 cm) by 6.5 feet (200 cm).. The painting depicts Dr. Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, lecturing a group of Jefferson Medical College students.
Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativity that continues into the 21st century. [1] Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.
After determining an artworks condition, stability, history of previous restoration, and documenting and photographing the examination, future conservation treatments can be determined. The results of conservation treatments often yield a more "stable paint layer and support, more appropriate aesthetic presentation through cleaning, and a more ...