Juliet and her nurse by Joseph Mallord William Turner

In May 30, 1980 Juliet and Her Nurse was sell for $6.4 million. It is an oil canvas, exhibited at Royal Academy 1836. This painting was put up for auction in 1980, after passing through 8 previous owners, including Turner himself.

This large plate reproduces one of the most important and influential canvases of Turner's later career.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy early in 1836, 'Juliet and her Nurse' became the subject of a vicious attack by the Reverend John Eagles in an article published in 'Blackwood's Magazine' later in the year. Eagles wrote that the picture was 'a strange jumble', but one of his chief complaints was that Turner should have chosen to set this scene from 'Romeo and Juliet' in Venice rather than Verona.

No doubt Turner's decision to place Shakespeare's famous heroine in Venice was influenced by the romantic atmosphere of the city; in the foreground she is seen musing on her new-found love.
Juliet and her nurse by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis
Titian is Tiziano Vecellio was the greatest artist in 16th century. He is known for his remarkable use of color in his painting.

In his painting Venus and Adonis, it relates the story of the Venus trying to restrain her lover, Adonis, from departing for the hunt. It is tragic that Adonis is destined to be killed after that by a wild boar. This story of Venus and Adonis derives from Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10. In this story Adonis was the first mortal lover of Venus, who’s a long companion.

Titian used rich colors, shimmering highlights, and a lush landscape to create the painting’s evocative, poignant mood. It was fetched US$13.5 million in 1991.
Venus and Adonis

Picasso - Le rêve

1932 painting by the 50-year old Pablo Picasso portraying his 22-year old mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter.It is in 51 1/4 x 38 1/8 in.It belongs to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism.

Walter’s face deliberately can be seen in two perspectives, in one of which she seems to perform fellatio, suggesting that the title of the painting may refer to Picasso’s rather than Walter’s dream.

It was been painted in one afternoon, on January 24, 1932. It belongs to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism.

The price was $48.4 million in 1997. Bought by Steve Wynn whose owns the casino empire 2001 hich estimated to $60 million. Le Rêve was purchased at cost only $7000 in 1941 by Victor and Sally Ganz from New York.
Picasso - Le rêve

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton appears in an oil painting of 1702 by Godfrey Kneller. The painting is in the National Portrait Gallery, in London.

This is the earliest portrait of Newton to survive. It was painted when Newton was in London as a member of the Convention Parliament, following the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. Newton was then 46 years old. Godfrey Kneller, is a prominent portrait painter of his day. This painting shows Newton in 1702 shortly before he became President of the Royal Society.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was one the greatest scientists of all time. His theory of universal gravitation provided the physical and mathematical basis for our understanding of planetary motions. He was able to show that the force of gravity that draws a falling apple to the ground is the same force that holds the Moon in its orbit about the Earth and the planets in their orbits around the Sun.

Irises by Vincent van Gogh

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Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted while he was at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in the last year before his death in 1890. Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 in Zundert – July 29, 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter, classified as a Post-Impressionist.

His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. He suffered from recurrent bouts of mental illness — about which there are many competing theories — and during one such episode, famously cut off a part of his left ear.

The Irises was painted before his first attack at the asylum. There is a lack of the high tension which is seen in his later works. He called the painting "the lightning conductor for my illness", because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.

The painting was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, like many of his works and those by other artists of the time. The similarities occur with strong outlines, unusual angles, including close-up views and also flattish local color (not modeled according to the fall of light). In 1987, it became the most expensive painting ever sold when it was sold for AUS $54,000,000 to Alan Bond, but he did not have enough money to pay for it and it had to be re-sold. It is now owned by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Famous Painting