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The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder. Old master paintings had previously dominated the market. [3] In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874. [citation needed]
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London. It was painted between c. 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), who according to Gian Pietro Bellori dictated its detailed iconography. The identity of the figures remains uncertain, with differing accounts.
The painting on the left is a wild pastoral landscape. The musical theme in Dutch painting in Vermeer's time often connoted love and seduction, but in this case the feeling is more ambiguous. Although the presence of Van Baburen's sexually exuberant picture suggests such an interpretation, its function may be to provide a contrast with the ...
Touted as one of the most influential Dutch painters of all time, Vincent van Gogh produced nearly 900 paintings and more than 1,100 works on paper during his lifetime.
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales.
Sold for: $2,930 Sold on: Nov. 18 Release Year: 1967 11. Soul Superiors feat. Sherman Willis – ‘Trust In Me Baby/Got To Find That Girl’
The works have been on loan to the museum since 2009 and on show in the specially designed bilingual Room 95. Sir Percival David was born into a wealthy family in Bombay in 1892 and inherited a ...