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Contemporary Art Market Statistics
Contemporary art market statistics. Basquiat was already the most sought-after and most expensive contemporary artist in 2000. Since then, only the level of prices has changed. Source: Artguide
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Love Story, a drawing by Viktor Tsoy created in 1987
Love Story, Viktor Tsoi. 1987
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Huge cartoons with the composition for the painting of the drum of the main dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral
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The Socialite's Children
The Socialite's Children. Karl Bryullov
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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has released his own line of footwear
Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami now makes footwear. Well, evidently the world has been feeling a certain shortage of rubber goods. Owners of Crocs, accordingly, should hasten to change their shoes.
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Rome
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese. In the end the sculpture did not please the king, and he sent it off to the back of the park
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Twelve lathes of Peter the Great in the Hermitage, one in Peter's Winter Palace
Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.
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I Feel an Irresistible Urge for Treasure at the Fabergé Museum
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Mood: Elizabeth II through the Lens of François-Marie Banier, 1992
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If Anyone Is Waiting for a Sign from Above, This Is It
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