Zhiyong Jing – Eyewitness (2020)
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Category: Art
The 20 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold — and the Stories Behind Them
Salvator Mundi – Leonardo da Vinci – Sold for $450.3 million (2017)
Painted around 1500, Salvator Mundi (“Savior of the World”) depicts Christ holding a crystal orb. Once lost for centuries, it became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in 2017, purchased by Saudi Prince Badr bin Abdullah on behalf of the Saudi crown prince.
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Don Quixote and the Atomic Era – Salvador Dalí (1957)
From Portrait to Photograph: Famous Figures Caught in Both Eras
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Kurt Ard – Knight in Distress (1958)
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Aron Wiesenfeld – Lonely Kingdom (2024)
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Ron Francis – Hope (2024)
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Bo Barlett – Halloween (2016)
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Vittorio Zecchin – Cortege of the Princesses (1914)
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Criselda Vasquez – The New American Gothic (2017)
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How 14 Self-Portraits Tell the Story of Picasso’s Restless Reinvention
Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits offer not only a mirror into his own psychology, but also a vivid timeline of his relentless stylistic invention. Over the span of more than seven decades, Picasso returned to the act of self-depiction with an insistence that was equal parts curiosity and bravado. To move through fourteen of these portraits—beginning when Picasso was 15 and continuing into his 90s—is to encounter a singular artistic mind ceaselessly reinventing itself.