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Painting of Lawrence Oates leaving the tent by John Charles Dollman. "I am just going outside and may be some time." [23] [50] [51] [52] — Lawrence Oates, British army officer and Antarctic explorer (17 March 1912), prior to walking out of tent and into blizzard on Terra Nova Expedition "Last Entry — For God's sake look after our people" [53]
— Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (4 August 1265), before dying at the Battle of Evesham "O my mother! how deep will be thy sorrow at the news of this day!" [11]: 38 — Conradin, last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen (29 October 1268), prior to execution by beheading at the age of 16 "I will enter thy house.
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]
Image credits: Morbid_Mummy1031 #7. Two come to mind, a mother and son were cooking m*th and the house exploded. They both had enough burns they were not going to make it.
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)
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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 ...
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