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However, the title of Don Thompson's book, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, suggests a higher figure. Owing to deterioration of the original 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark, it was replaced with a new specimen in 2006. It was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 2007 to 2010. [1]
Horses Leaving the Sea (1860) by Eugène Delacroix. Horses Leaving the Sea or Horses Coming Out of the Sea is an 1860 oil on canvas painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. [1] Relatively atypical in Delacroix's oeuvre, it shows two horses leaving the sea led by a Moroccan rider, with the town of Tangiers in the background.
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
The horse on the left has a face of agony and is crying out. The horse on the right is more accepting of his fate of oncoming death and looks away from the fire. The next spark to hit is the tan line that is right across the blue deer's neck. It misses the blue deer and heads towards the boars in the bottom left of the painting.
The painting, now on display in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., was exhibited at the 1866 Salon in Paris. Degas painted the work on a large canvas. Horses race from the right to left side. In total, there are four horses, with three jockeys. One of the jockeys has fallen off his horse and lies motionless in the foreground.
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At the Races in the Countryside or Carriage at the Races is an 1869 oil painting by the French painter Edgar Degas. The painting, which depicts a scene of a family in a horse-drawn carriage in the countryside, is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. [1] The painting was shown at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. [2]
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.