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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 ...
A collection of previously published math-and-science-themed strips. NOTE: The binary on the cover says "BUY THIS BOOK" multiple times. The Best of FoxTrot: November 23, 2010 ISBN 0-7407-7733-5: Includes Bill Amend's favorite strips, with annotations. AAAA!: A FoxTrot Assortment for Young Readers: October 2, 2012 ISBN 0-7407-9140-0
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 ...
Location and coordinates: Material: Details: Owner: Skyspace I [8] 1974: Panza Collection, Varese, Italy: Originally located at the Guggenheim in NYC [9] Panza Collection, Varese, Italy Lunette [8] 1974: Panza Collection, Varese, Italy: Originally located at the Guggenheim in NYC [10] Panza Collection, Varese, Italy Meeting [11] 1986
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list. Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide,[ 13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [ 14] making ...
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
A history of painting by Haldane Macfall (London, T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1911–1912). Illustrated: Volume 1 – The renaissance in central Italy. Volume 2 – The renaissance in Venice. Volume 3 – Later Italians and genius of Spain. Volume 4 – The renaissance in the north & the Flemish genius. Volume 5 – The Dutch Genius.