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This sale tripled the previous record, and introduced a new era in top art sales. Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was £8.1 million (£23.7 million in 2024 currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985. [5]
An untitled abstract by Gaitonde sold for Rs 92 lakh at an Osians auction, the highest amount paid for a contemporary Indian painting at the time. [7] Gaitonde died in 2002. In 2013, one of Gaitonde's untitled painting sold for ₹ 237 million (US$2.7 million), set a record for an Indian artist at Christie's debut auction in India. [8] [9]
The following is a list of last words uttered by notable individuals during the 20th century (1901-2000). A typical entry will report information in the following order: Last word(s), name and short description, date of death, circumstances around their death (if applicable), and a reference.
The work, possibly his last painting, was done just a few months before his death aged eighty-nine by Western reckoning. [2] It shows that even in his old age, Hokusai's powers remained undiminished. [3] Narazaki Muneshige wrote of this painting, "While the artist's body was emaciated and bones wearied by age, in his thoughts he was a charging ...
The Last Unfinished Painting, originally titled On the Roof, is Amrita Sher-Gil's last oil on canvas painting, created from the window of her apartment in Lahore, India, shortly before her death in December 1941. Her intention was to paint what she could see from her terrace: the milkmen's buffaloes that lived near her house.
A History of Indian Painting: The Modern Period by Krishna Chaitanya. Published by Abhinav Publications, 1994. ISBN 81-7017-310-8. C. Sivaramamurti (1996). Indian Painting. India Book House. ISBN 8123720149. OCLC 977530313. C. Sivaramamurti (1978b). Chitrasutra of the Vishnudharmottara. Kanal Publications. OCLC 5856266. C. Sivaramamurti (1968).
More than three years after his death, Avicii‘s final words have been revealed. See Avicii’s Life in Photos 3 Years After His Death. Read article. The DJ (real name Tim Bergling) died by ...
The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, 2nd edn. 1994, Yale University Press Pelican History of Art, ISBN 0300062176; Harsha V. Dehejia, The Advaita of Art (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000, ISBN 81-208-1389-8), p. 97; Kapila Vatsyayan, Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts (New Delhi: Sangeet Natak Akademi, 1977), p. 8