Yet, one of his more famous tableaux, Le Bateau
(The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of
Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists,
116,000 visitors, or curators has noticed it.
Perhaps the most famous case of artistic misjudgment involves Vincent
van Gogh whose work has hitherto fetched the highest prices ever paid
in auctions. Despite his connections with leading painters, gallery
owners, art professors and critics - his brother owned a
successful art dealership in Paris - van Gogh sold only one piece
while alive: "Red Vineyard at Arles." His brother bought it from him.
By the time he died he had painted 750 canvasses and 1600 drawings.
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Atlantis
Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island
in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near
the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was not,
therefore, a part of the known geography of the period. An earthquake
was said to have submerged it in the ocean.
It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by
the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC).
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