Lost on the Grand Banks
Painting by Winslow Homer
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Artist | Winslow Homer |
Year | 1885 (1885) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 81 cm × 130 cm (32 in × 50 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Owner | Bill Gates |
Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with The Herring Net and The Fog Warning, painted in the same year, it depicts the hard lives of North Atlantic fishermen in Prouts Neck, Maine.[1] The painting was bought in 1998 by Bill Gates, then-chairman of Microsoft, who reportedly paid $30 million for the seascape, at the time a record price for an American painting.[2]
References
- ^ "The Fog Warning: Halibut Fishing, 1885". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- "The Herring Net, 1885". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1885. Retrieved August 30, 2016. - ^ Vogel, Carol (May 5, 1998). "Sale of Homer Seascape Sets Record". The New York Times.
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Winslow Homer
- The Brierwood Pipe (1864)
- The Bright Side (1865)
- The Veteran in a New Field (1865)
- In Front of Yorktown (c. 1863–66)
- Prisoners from the Front (1866)
- Snap the Whip (1872)
- Grace Hoops (1872)
- A Basket of Clams (1873)
- The Boat Builders (1873)
- Breezing Up (1873–76)
- The Cotton Pickers (1876)
- A Visit from the Old Mistress (1876)
- Dressing for the Carnival (1877)
- Children Under a Palm (1885)
- The Fog Warning (1885)
- Lost on the Grand Banks (1885)
- Eight Bells (1886)
- The Fox Hunt (1893)
- Moonlight, Wood Island Light (1894)
- Cannon Rock (1895)
- Northeaster (1895)
- Maine Coast (1895)
- The Gulf Stream (1899)
- Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba (1901)
- Fishing Boats, Key West (1903)
- Right and Left (1909)
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