He disliked the Graham Sutherland painting so much that it ended up being set on fire, as immortalized on The Crown . This study remains.
“That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane) in the first season of “The Crown,” Netflix’s six-series dramatization about the English monarchy. Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his 80th birthday, as it is unveiled in London’s Westminster Hall in November 1954. Churchill goes on to describe his appearance in the painting as “a broken,...
VIENNA >> A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros ($32 million).
BEATLE John Lennon’s lost Help! guitar could fetch more than £600,000 at auction — after it was found in a loft. The Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic played a pivotal role in the 1965 album, bu
Eight pieces of Michael Schumacher's watch collection are set to go on auction. The seven-time F1 world champion garnered an incredible array of timepieces. His wife, Corinna, has been caring for Schumacher since a ski accident in 2013
The auction includes Italian racing machines that retailed for as much as £3,500, children’s cycles that cost over £600 and even balance bikes for toddlers that had price tags of £180. The mountain of parts going under the hammer covers everything from brake blocks (£45 a pair in the case of some Swiss productions) through to carbon frames that were priced at two and a half thousand. The sell-off follows the liquidation of Leeds Bike Shop Ltd, the company behind Life Cycles on Stanningley Road....
A local man is selling a Jeep he's painted to look like a Barbie vehicle.
The friendly faces of this traveling troupe covers their shady underhand dealings. Learn all about them in our Bushido Path of the Thousand Names guide.Read this article on TechRaptor
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It turns out some $1 bills, potentially tucked in our billfolds and between couch cushions this whole time, could also be worth thousands.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations states that more than a thousand Afghan migrants returned to the country after being expelled from Pakistan. In a newsletter released on Saturday, April 27th, the ministry says that a total of 1,243 Afghan migrants returned to the country following forced deportation. According to the ministry statement, on April […]
Australians will take to the nation’s streets in their thousands to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. About 15 rallies will be held across the nation over the weekend amid calls for concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least […]