In 1961, Matisse’s Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 2 months in the Museum of Modern Art, New York – none of the 116,000 visitors had noticed.
The first color photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.
John James Audubon painted 435 watercolors of birds in his life time. He was born on the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo in 1784.In 1802 he moved to the United states where he fell in love with the bird life and made it his life’s work to paint a picture of every species of bird in America.
Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.
Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, while admired by millions (possibly billions) since his death, only sold one painting during his lifetime.
