Men in Her Life (painting) Men in Her Life (painting) Men in Her Life is a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol. It is a black and white painting inspired by the life of Elizabeth Taylor, a seven foot tall creation of the artist. It is a series of photos picturing the most important men in the life of Elizabeth Taylor, including her third husband Mike Todd and her future husband Eddie Fisher. The painting was sold for $63.4 million in 2010 by Phillips de Pury & Co. The final sum was a surprise even for the organizers, which evaluated the painting at 40 million dollars
The Finding of Moses (Alma-Tadema painting) inspiration for the set designers of Biblical epics such as D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916), and Cecil B. DeMille's "Cleopatra" (1934) and "The Ten Commandments" (1956) (in 1968 Mario Amaya published an article in "The Sunday Times" entitled "The Painter who Inspired Hollywood"). After Aird's death in 1911, the painting was inherited by his son Sir John Richard Aird, 2nd Baronet, and then following his death in 1934 it was sold by his son Sir John Renton Aird, 3rd Baronet at Christie's in London in May 1935, and acquired by an art dealer for 820 guineas. The painting was sold