The still life depicts a blue-and-white vase holding a tight bouquet of yellow flowers atop a tablecloth of deep blue and pink.
Research suggests that the still life was painted on the same canvas fewer than six months later, while in Paris.
The seller of the still life has been identified as the New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ).
The seller of the still life has been identified as the New York Times Co.. Many recall the painting hanging in the Times executive dining room over the years.
The exquisite still life represents the best of American realist painting.
It once took days for image buyers to track down the perfect still life with strawberries.
London (CNN) -- A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life.
The Diane of today still praises decentralization and her new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System is still filled with Hayekian wisdom.
Where the first is expansive, with figures pointing out of the picture plane and with food arranged on the table in the manner of a still-life, the second is more restrained and internal, concentrating on the mystery surrounding Christ, rather than on the dramatic moment of recognition.
The work of Italian still-life artist Giorgio Morandi provided the genesis for the painter's table, if not for the entire undertaking.
Ten years ago, an art exhibit with the words "interior" or "still life" in the title would have had me running away to the nearest modern art wing.
Even though the people of Mecca had left the nomadic life behind, they still regarded the Bedouin as the guardians of authentic Arab culture.
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Three bidders fought over the placemat-size still life, which depicts several golden-hued apples stacked on a white plate near some smaller, green fruit.
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And this could play a crucial role in evaluating the still-controversial evidence for the existence of life on Mars a planet that, in astronomical terms, is a mere stone's throw away.
Our term "still life" (from the Dutch still-liven) was effectively born with the genre.
One is that we are lousy in the UK at catching and diagnosing the disease before it becomes inoperable: cutting the cancer out through surgery is still the most effective way of prolonging life.
Although Grise Fiord represents the most northerly civilian settlement in North America, Brossier explains that the town is still privy to the comforts of contemporary western life.
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"The midwives from the unit are still operating in the community - for the life of me I can't understand why they can't deliver in the fantastic unit, " she said.
The exhibit's final piece, Still Life With Old Shoe, announces a new stage in the life and work of the artist: a return to figurative painting.
Years ago, when computers were still a novelty, he installed them in some of his holiday villages, to the surprise of guests who still believed that Club Med meant the simple life.
One highlight of the May auctions was the sale of ''Nature Morte au Melon Vert, '' a delicious still-life composition by the painter Paul Cezanne that grabbed the top price at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction.
Still, enthusiasm about the health of the region's banks should be tempered by the fact that many are still on government-backed life support and that the next few years are likely to be tough.
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The U.S. reported stronger than expected retail sales last week, proving the country still has signs of life post-QE2.
But there is still life after the Getty for Mr Meier, who maintained a packed building schedule during the Getty's gestation.
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The claim has been backed by a woman whose mentally-ill mother was sent home after a suicide attempt - although the family still fear for her life.
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Indeed, beginning with this still life, the joining of the skull with other symbols appears in Braque's mature work only on the eve of World War II, with these combinations continuing during the Nazi Occupation.
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