A picture is like a tree or a church; you’ve got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Nobody knows whether they’re all nonsense or a gift from heaven. And the only people who think anything of ’em are a …
The marquesa wrote to da Vinci to ask for a painting from the sketch. Until recently, art experts assumed he never found the time to complete the painting or simply lost interest in it. Miss Preston had first spotted the …
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He claimed that, before her death, his mother had told Martha to return the Renoir to the museum. Doyle received a six-year prison sentence, and the Corot masterpiece was sold to make restitution to the swindled investor, Fitzgerald. Eventually, she …
The fourth was sold in 2012 for close to 120 million dollars. The oldest version is in the National Gallery, and was stolen in 1994 but recovered months later. Another version was stolen in 2004 from the Munch Museum, and …