Art

The world's expensive painting called «Number 5» was sold at Sotheby's in 2006 for the fortune, 140 million dollars. Jackson Pollock, the painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement, made the painting on an 8' x 4' sheet of fiberboard, in 1948 with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance that made him famous all over the world. The same year the second expensive by the cost painting by Willem de Kooning, the painter from the Netherlands, was sold for 137,5 million dollars. Woman III measuring 68 by 48½ inches, is one of six «Woman» paintings he numbered. He painted the picture with oil on canvas in 1953.

Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. The majority of Post-Impressionist painters lived and died in poverty, and Gauguin was not an exception. When he was living in Tahiti, the place of his best works, Gauguin had to work with the paint diluted with the paste from the breadfruit tree roots. The painter was then living in the thatched hat. And nowadays, his paintings of Tahiti period are deemed as world art treasures, and they are hunted and chased by collectors. His works are auctioned for fortune all the time.

Mark Chagall has been recognized nearly in every part of the world. Chagall was born to a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Belarus. In 1920 Chagall moved to Moscow, and two year later he left for Berlin and afterward to Paris where he spent almost all the rest of his life.

Christie's is known as the first solid auction house for fine art established by the ex-naval officer James Christie Senior. First auction was supervised by James Christie Senior in 1766 in London and since that time it is one of the acknowledged auctions in the world. Shortly after James purchased a special premise with the hall to hold auctions where the former naval officer learned how to sale. Christie's Auction House reached the top of its flourishing in 1848 after the French Revolution during the boom of ‘grand sales'. He is thought to make the trade with antique and fine art a real art of trade and this auction House is famous for the most well-known and grandiose auctions of the XVIII and XIX centuries.

The founder of such a popular and the most demanded at the world art auctions trend in impressionist painting is the famous French painter Claude Oscar Monet. In his painting ‘Le dejeuner sur l'herbe' created in 1866 Monet first realized his novateur vision of the world breaking all adopted traditions of academic painting. Monet set the main accents to reproduce a passing impression with a photograph precision, and painting the effect of light and plain air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

The life of Pablo Picasso is the rare example of the generous fortune that allowed a great popularity to the talented painter and an opportunity to become a founder of such a revolutionary style in the art as cubism, yet to earn millions. As a child Pablo painted up the legs of pigeons in the pictures of his father - the painter José Ruiz, and he always shocked the public with the marvelous technique of painting.

They say that genius and insanity is two sides of one and the same medal. Unluckily, this statement is openly associated with life and work of the great Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Prior to coming to the path of a painter, Van Gogh had to go a complicated life path from a stockbroker at the style and trade firm in Hague to a preacher in Belgium where he protected rights of miners and came to conflict with church authorities.

There was opening of an exhibition of 30 young artists on April 15, 1874 in the Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, who were united with the idea to reproduce in their pictures short emotional effects our life is rich in. This significant exhibition officially initiated a new style in the art called impressionism. Specialist of this genre aspired to not only create topics taken from the everyday life but with photographic accuracy portray flying impression from an individual though trivial eyewink that will become a plot for another picture in a while.

Antique weapons are acquired to serve for various purposes, as a decorative element of the styled interior, unique present to investments or for creation of major collection. Criteria to collect antique weaponry depend on welfare and taste of a human being and it is hard to say what exact kind of weaponry wins high esteem.

We may hear of a numerous Auction Houses at the modern market of antiques and each one has its magnificent history background, its own peculiarities. For example, Kunsthaus Lempertz Auction House situated in Cologne is one of the ancient representatives of family auction business in the world and the most ancient House in Germany.