Rachel Ruysch, Still life with flowers in a vase on a ledge with a dragonfly, caterpillar, and butterfly, 1698.
Posted on 01/29/2021 3:34:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
$92M
That’s nothing compared to basket case.
I see the Botticelli portrait went for $92.2 million. I’m very disappointed. And that’s because I was sure I was going to get it with my bid of $91.5 million.
Oh, well. Maybe next time.
Thanks for posting. I admired great art many times at the Detroit Institute of Arts...right across the street from the Wayne St. University campus that I attended. It was my favorite place to go when I had long breaks between classes...or go there just to study in the magnificent rooms.
It is truly an experience. I highly recommend it to anyone near an art institute.
Dang!
I was planning on getting that for my bedroom...
Probably should have increased my bid of $100...
It’s always those snipers at the end that get ya...
Color me not very impressed.
So, did a group on Reddit drive the price up?
Weirdest one was the modern art museum in Kassel, Germany. They had an exhibit...gnomes in chocolate. Can't find a picture but it was German garden gnome
in a 2 1/2 foot block of chocolate .
Stupidest museum ever.
One room was just some modern artist signing the stuff he had laying around the house.
A Japanese writer, Yukio Yashiro, was a great scholar of Botticelli ( I think there was another great Japanese scholar of the artist, too):
http://archive.org/stream/BotticelliVol1/Botticelli-Vol_1_djvu.txt
I’m sorry...if I’d known it was you, I would’ve backed off.
But it’s gonna look just right in the half bath downstairs.
Nice frame. Maybe you can cover whatever that is in the middle with some dogs playing poker.
No worries. While I didn’t get the Botticelli, I did put in the winning bid for the other painting I wanted.
This is lovely.
It looks like she used Egg Tempera with flat areas of gouache, the same medium employed by Botticelli in what is his most famous work: The Birth of Venus.
I like a lot of the Madonnas; but I like the Annunciation best...
Breathtaking.
Hideous
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