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.
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) (Photo: Wiki) This pastel rendering, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec when he was 23, shows his 34-year-old friend Vincent van Gogh. The bright green and alarmingly potent spirit Absinthe became the creative fuel for the bohemian artists of the day. It became known as the queen of poisons, favoured by Lautrec, Picasso and van Gogh.