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Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$57.2 million in 2023). [ 14][ 15] Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by ...
The operating agreement required Fisk University to set aside $3.9 million of the $30 million sale proceeds to be used to establish a fund for the care and maintenance of the collection at the Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University. [21] [22] The court dispute cost Fisk University $5.8 million in legal fees. [23]
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust. The British monarch owns some of the collection in right of the ...
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The paintings were, and remain, the heart of the National Gallery of Art collection. Other sales were made in the same period, notably the Codex Siniaticus from the Russian National Library , sold in 1933 to the British Museum (after 1973 British Library ) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £9 million in 2024), [ 4 ] and The ...
James Cameron wrote, directed, and produced Avatar. Avatar was released in December 2009 and went on to break multiple box office records in various markets. Worldwide, it became the highest-grossing movie of all time and the fastest movie to gross $1 billion through $2.5 billion, while also setting the records for the highest grosses in the 3D and IMAX formats, respectively. In its domestic ...
The United States' Amarilees Bolorin, left, takes a selfie with a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris, France.
After collecting a formative group of American folk art pieces under the advisement of consultants and art dealers, art patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller anonymously loaned part of her folk art collection to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900 which ran from November 30, 1932, through January 14, 1933 in New York.