• The La Scala Opera House, pictured here, is found in which Italian city? Milan• The artist Georges Seurat is known for developing what type of painting technique? Pointillism• The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, pictured here, was painted by what famous Renaissance artist? Michelangelo...
Stupendous prices were paid in a historic sale of 19th- and 20th-century avant-garde paintings collected over a lifetime by John Hay Whitney and his wife, Betsy Cushing Whitney, Picasso’s "Garcon à la Pipe" (Boy With a Pipe), painted in 1905, shot up to 104.1 million at Sotheby’s...
The same combination of boldness in composition and harmony in the color scheme can again be detected in Claude Monet’s "Bateaux Sur le Galet" (Boats on the Strand), painted in 1884. Here too the work is unusual. The thrust of the brush strokes that define the boats and the close-up...