Did You Know These Art Facts?

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by admin in Did you Know

Did you know these art facts?

 • Le Rêve (The Dream) by Pablo Picasso (1932) was owned by casino magnate Steve Wynn. In 2006 he agreed to sell the painting for $139 million, but accidentally put his elbow through the canvas the day before the sale was to be completed!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 • Most artists are left handed.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 • Art has surpassed the stock market in appreciation over the past twenty years.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 • An art collector of the Indian born British sculptor Anish Kapoor was recently awarded £350,000 in damages after an art storage company mistook a work for rubbish and threw it away.

 
 

 
 
 • A woman in France was arrested and charged for kissing a Cy Twombly painting worth more than 2 million dollars. She said she was overcome with passion and just couldn’t help herself.

 

 
 • The Spanish / Mexican artist Santiago Sierra created a stir with his exhibition of human excrement at London’s Lisson Gallery. The 21 blocks of excrement each measure 215 x 75 x 20cm and was collected by faeces “scavengers” in New Delhi and Jaipur, India. Apparently he was making a smelly statement.


 
 
 
 • The World’s Smallest Sculpture was created by Willard Wigan. He used rice or grains of sand and a surgical blade to create his “micro sculpture”. They’re so small that they can fit into the eye of a needle (see picture) and he uses the hair from flies as a paint brush to decorate them!