Child With A Dove was sold by auctioneers Christies on behalf of the Aberconway family in Wales, who were bequeathed the painting in 1947 following the death of Samuel Courtauld.
John Reynolds in the foreground on a stretcher, dying from the head wound he suffered at Herbst Wood, a geographic feature in the center of the painting that was crucial in delaying the Confederate advance.
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The committe made the decision on the grounds that the painting was of outstanding significance for the study of the relationship between British and American painting in the 19th Century.
The colors may look just right, until you bring the painting indoors under artificial light or print the painting in a book.
Curators at the Prado museum in Madrid claim the painting of St John the Baptist, found in a Spanish church, was painted by the Italian master.
It took about a month to make all three paintings, a process that was slowed by Mr. Boyle's request that Mr. Cobb shoot stop-motion photographs every few brush strokes, for a sequence toward the end of the film in which the painting gets "unpainted" so that the audience can appreciate all the layers involved in creating the work.
About 10 yards in front of the painting is an interactive kiosk that explains the painting's history and allows visitors to focus in on certain historically important aspects of the battle scene.
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Residents have described painting the lines in the first place as a "little bizarre" but painting over them in black paint as "even more bizarre".
The seller of the still life has been identified as the New York Times Co.. Many recall the painting hanging in the Times executive dining room over the years.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators worked the case, concluded the painting in New York was the same one stolen from France more than 90 years ago and seized it.
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Someone who just happens to be trying to get to the subway one day now ends up in the painting that goes to one of the large museums throughout the world!
And you only get to use the core painting mechanic in the first chapter you never get the paint back again.
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Announcing the sale of the Constable painting in May, the baroness said she needed to sell because of the current economic crisis.
In the 1970s the painting was loaned to the National Gallery in London and last year it went on display in the Courtauld Gallery's exhibition Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901.
Shell, a well-known Teacher in the Drawing and Painting school of Mr. Coe, in the New York University.
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This is the first of three shows exploring Indian painting in the wake of the nation's 1947 independence, the partition and creation of Pakistan and the violence that followed.
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In May 1994, Norwegian and British police mounted an undercover sting which uncovered the painting, unharmed, in the seaside town outside Oslo where Edvard Munch painted many of his most famous paintings.
The famous art historian and scholar Giorgio Vasari, writing in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists in 1568, mentioned that Pinturicchio's painting was "over the door of a room in the Apostolic Palace".
Hussain explained that the prostitutes in the painting were preparing to receive new customers as soon as the prayers in the mosque were over.
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The reason class warfare rhetoric has been effective of late is because the practitioners of class warfare have largely succeeded in painting the rich as unproductive parasites.
After he died in 2007, the painting was offered in memory of Sir Oliver and his wife, Delia, who died in 2004, on condition that it should return to Hampton Court Palace.
Searle claimed the Gutmann family sold the painting in Paris in 1939 and that even if it were stolen, the heirs could have found it much earlier if they had been searching diligently.
In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.
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Writing about the conservation of ecclesiastic painting in 1926, the Cologne art historian Otto H.
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Lascaux II is an exact copy, painstakingly re-created using the same painting techniques as in the originals: pigments mixed in the mouth and blown onto the walls through marrow bones.
His painting "Negro Masks" (1932) is displayed in the exhibition with the two sculptures that inspired the painting, a Yoruba Gelede helmet-mask from Nigeria and a Bwa mask from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arranged on a Kuba textile.
He says his great-grandfather's property was nationalised during the Communist revolution, which is why the painting did not remain in the family.
Distinguished by the Hacker Prize and the Silver Medal in Painting, he competed for the Rome Prize, which he won in 1959.
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The exhibit includes other canvases depicting the Madonna, as well as prints and photographs that attest to the role mechanical reproduction played in the popularization of the painting.
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