Painted in 1905, the painting Garcon a la Pipe was a famous painting by which famous artist who died in 1973?
Garçon à la pipe Garçon à la pipe Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers. The painting was famously sold at a 2004 auction for $104 million, a price many art critics consider incongruous with the painting's actual artistic merit. Early preparations of this work involved positioning
Themes in Italian Renaissance painting These four famous paintings demonstrate the advent and acceptance of the nude as a subject for the artist in its own right. Paintings of classical mythology were invariably done for the important salons in the houses of private patrons. Botticelli's most famous works are for the Medici, Raphael painted "Galatea" for Agostino Chigi and Bellini's "Feast of the Gods" was, with several works by Titian, in the home of Alfonso I d'Este Themes in Italian Renaissance painting This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it