2015 Event Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million 2014 Event A Van Gogh painting, 'Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies', sells for $61.8 million, exceeding its estimated worth of $50 million; the artist painted the work at his doctor's home shortly before his death 2014 Event 'Nympheas', a painting in Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' series, is auctioned today for a price of $54 million; this is only the second-highest price paid for a Monet - another painting in the series sold in 2008 for $80.3 million at auction 2013 Event The painting, 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' by Sir Francis Bacon, sells for a record-high price of $142 million at Christie's auction in New York 2013 Event The landscape painting, 'Sunset at Montmajour,' becomes the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be confirmed since 1928; it is put on display at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Event The famous painting, 'Liberty Leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 is vandalized while on loan to the Louvre-Lenz museum in Lens, France 2012 Event Jan van Eyck is credited as the painter of 'The three mary's at the tomb' a painting from the 1430's held in a Rotterdam museum 2012 Event After thousands protest Brett Murray's controversial painting 'The Spear', the gallery that exhibited his painting agrees to take the image of the artwork down from its website 2012 Event A South African newspaper removes the controversial painting titled 'The Spear' by Brett Murray from its website 2012 Event A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house 2011 Event A record $79 million auction price is paid for Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang's 1988 'Forever Lasting Love' three-panel oil painting 2011 Event The most expensive painting ever auctioned, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust', by Pablo Picasso, goes on display in London's Tate Gallery 2011 Event A 450 year-old painting by Titian of the Madonna and Child sets a record at Sotheby's, selling for $16.9 million 1997 Event Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500 1994 Death Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Event Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen 1994 Event Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) 1988 Event Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% 1983 Event Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1983 Event Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City 1980 Event Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million 1974 Event Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London 1973 Event Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000 1971 Event John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen 1948 Birthday Lin Onus, born in Melbourne, Australia, born William McLintock Onus, of Jiradjuri descent, artist, painter, sculptor, print maker, used Maningride rarrk cross-hatching-based painting style 1925 Birthday Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 1916 Event Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting 1913 Event French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York City 1892 Death John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies 1815 Birthday John Banvard, New York City, painted worlds largest painting, 3 mile canvas 1783 Birthday David Cox, English painter, Treatise on landscape painting 1559 Death Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83 1476 Birthday Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder, Kano school of painting
