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"ESTATE" // 1963 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG [oil and silkscreen ink on canvas | 95 3/4 x 69 3/4"]

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915), Munklaverspelaren [Harmonica Player]. Oil on canvas, 144 x 92 cm.

Inventions of the Monsters has an ominous mood. It is rife with threats of danger, from the menacing fire in the distance to the sibylline figure in the foreground with an hourglass and a butterfly, both symbols of the inevitability of death. Next to this figure sit Dalí and his wife and muse, Gala. With his native Catalonia embroiled in the Spanish Civil War, the artist surely felt great anxiety over a world without a safe haven, a world that indeed had allowed for the invention of monsters.

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/vase-of-irises-1912

The muse of silence, 1973, Giorgio de Chirico

René Magritte, 1964

https://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/the-fanatics-1955

https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/immortality-1913

 Robert Motherwell

Diego Rivera (1886-1957, Mexican) ~  Paisaje Nocturno, 1947

Collection: Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA, United States

In November 2018, Hockney's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's for $90 million (£70 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction. It broke the previous record which was set by the 2013 sale of Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog (Orange) for $58.4 million. Hockney held the record until May 2019 when Koons' Rabbit sold for more than $91 million.

Acrobats, 1922, Raoul Dufy

David Hockney (1937-2026). RIP

David Hockney Rain, from The Weather Series (NGA/Gemini 23.4), 1973 Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches watermarked paper; signed 'David Hockney 73' in green pencil along the lower edge

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67456