Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2012

The Darmstadt Madonna - Hans Holbein the Younger.



Price in US $ - 75 million



The Darmstadt Madonna (also known as "The Madonna With the Family of Mayor Meyer") is a masterpiece oil painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

The painting was influenced by Italian Renaissance religious painting, with elements of Netherlandish portrait painting. The painting was earlier located in Darmstadt - hence its title.



Friday, October 14, 2011

False Start - Jasper Johns

Price in US $ - 80 million






















Jasper Johns
is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. The False Start is one of his popular oil paintings made on a canvas 170.8 centimeters long and 137.2 centimeters wide - best described as second generation abstract expressionist.

His fixation on technical procedures defines the work of art as almost a kind of utilitarian object—as if the function of a painting were, first and foremost, to describe itself.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Le Rêve - Picasso

Price in US $ - 60,000,000

picasso
Le Rêve (The Dream in French) is a 1932 oil painting belonging to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism. The erotic content of the painting has been noted repeatedly, with critics pointing out that Picasso painted an erect penis, presumably symbolizing his own, in the upturned face of his model.