1 Kings 4:21, 29â34. The Israelites came to King Solomon when they needed help. One day two women came to him with a baby boy. The women said they lived in the same house. They each had a baby, but one of the babies died. Now both women wanted the baby that was alive. Each mother said he was her baby. They wanted King Solomon to tell them who could keep the baby.
The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of Â£24.75 million (Â£62.8 million in current value) it tripled the previous record and introduced a new era in top art sales.
Vincentâs brotherâs wife collected Vincentâs paintings and letters after his death and dedicated herself to getting his work the recognition it deserved. In a short period of ten years Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death. Vincent van Gogh did not cut off his ear. He only cut off a small portion of his ear lobe. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.