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.
Van Gogh made more than 800 paintings using oil paints. Starry Night is an example of an oil painting van Gogh made on a canvas. Van Gogh also painted with watercolors. One of his earliest watercolor pieces was Coalmine in the Borinage, painted in 1879.an Gogh's early paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, were very dark and serious. When he moved to Paris in 1886, he was influenced by the art of Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists who were exhibiting there, as well as by Japanese prints.