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Barack Obama by Shiva Zamanfar
Oil on Paper.

New Artwork : Fahmida Tanjeen

1932 canvas entitled Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sold for $106m (£70m) at Christie’s in New York, a record for a work of art sold at auction

Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust (1932). Photograph: Christie’s/AP

Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust has sold for $106m (£70m) at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday, setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.

The vibrant large-scale depiction of Picasso’s mistress and frequent subject, Marie-Therese Walter, was the highlight of a world-class collection assembled by the late Los Angeles art patrons Frances and Sidney Brody.

It had been estimated to sell for more than $80m, but many art experts predicted in recent weeks it would ride growing confidence in a recovering art market and break the previous record of $104.3m set in February by Giacometti’s Walking Man I at Sotheby’s in London.

More than half a dozen people bid on the 1932 canvas, which the Brodys acquired in the 1950s from Picasso’s dealers, with the winning bid taken by a Christie’s executive via telephone. The final price of $106,482,500 included the auction’s house’s commission.

Article from guardian.co.uk

Liberty Leading the People : Eugene Delacroix Painting

Art, Liberty Leading the People : Eugene Delacroix Painting. This is perhaps Delacroix best-known painting, having carved its own niche in popular culture. Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other.

Art, Well-known Chinese painter, Zou Chuan-an, Flower – Bird Painting Album, Chinese Art. Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made of are paper and silk. The finished work is then mounted on scrolls, which can be hung or rolled up. Traditional painting also is done in albums and on walls, lacquerwork, and other media.

Art, David Roberts painting of ancient Egypt, Oil paintings of ancient Egyptian civilization. Ancient Egyptian architecture, pyramids, the Sphinx.

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Art, Donald Zolan Oil Painting : Golden childhood, Brush with a description of the lovely world, Donald Zolan Paintings.

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