... that in 1961, Henri Matisse's painting Le Bateau hung upsidedown in Museum of Modern Art in New York for 46 days before anyone (including the 116,000 visitors) noticed the error?
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| Le Bateau |
... that the French artist Paul Gauguin held down jobs as an investment banker and a labourer on the Panama Canal before trying his hand at painting?
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| Gauguin Self Portrait |
... that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles, during his lifetime? He died by his own hand, a pauper and quite mad.
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| Red Vineyard at Arles |
... that Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors?
... that Degas was so fascinated by ballerinas that he produced over 1,500 paintings and drawings of ballet dancers during his career?
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| Degas's Ballerinas |
... that the Statue of Liberty is the world's largest hammered copper statue?
... that Pablo Picasso was drawing before he could talk? When he did utter his first word, it was the Spanish word for pencil
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| Pablo Picasso Self Portrait |
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