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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.
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]
The Last Day of Pompeii; The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier; The Last Muster; The Last of the Mohicans: The Death of Cora; The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon; Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius; Lemminkäinen's Mother; The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons; The Lion Hunt (Rubens)
Image credits: anebje #2. Brought a pediatric patient back for emergency heart surgery (about 14yrs old). He was very nervous. Outlook looked grim. I held his hand as they began to induce anesthesia.
This is roughly 6 times the price it drew in 2003 when the hammer fell at $11.8 million. Sotheby's notes, "$66.3 million marks the highest auction price for Van Gogh since 1998, and an auction ...
Last words of Julius Caesar; Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, an 1844 painting; Sayings of Jesus on the cross, also known as The Seven Last Words; Last Words of the Executed, a 2010 book by Robert K. Elder; The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, an unproduced screenplay by William S. Burroughs; The Last Words of David, a 1949 choral work by ...
For Adams, who was born in Baltimore in 1970, painting is a way of “bookmarking” his own personal interests and fixations: Telfar bags, 19th-century ceramics, Kenyan Masai warrior sculptures ...
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 ...