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This ‘suicide gun’ worth $180,000 !!

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The gun that is believed to be Vincent van Gogh used to kill himself has been sold in auction for €162,500 (£144,000; $182,000). This is about three times more than the expected amount.

The rusty revolver is supposed to be used by Van Gogh to kill himself in 1890. A private collector had purchased this gun via telephone call.

The gun was found by a farmer from the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where the artist spent his final days. The gun was believed to be used by Van Gogh for his suicide, since it was approximately the right age, and used the same calibre of bullet he shot himself with.

In a statement prior to the auction sale, it was said that, “It was discovered where Van Gogh shot it; its caliber is the same as the bullet retrieved from the artist’s body as described by the doctor at the time; (and) scientific studies demonstrate that the gun had stayed in the ground since the 1890s”.

This was a The 7mm Lefaucheux revolver, and was sold at the auction in Paris on Tuesday. The gun was described as “the most famous weapon in the history of art”.

Auctioneer Gregoire Veyres said, “It is a very emblematic piece”.

“The fact that it’s a gun, it’s an object of death. And if Van Gogh is Van Gogh, it’s because of his suicide and this gun is part of it”, he added.

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Bafta Awards: Daisy May Cooper on Red carpet with her bin bag dress

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British actress and writer Daisy May Cooper made a different attire on the Red Carpet of Bafta Awards. She was dressed in a black bin liner, with rubbish strewn from the back and paired with a hat with a pigeon on top.

The actress told media that the dress was designed by her mother. She also told the media that her intention was to donate the money she did not spend on a luxurious gown to charity.

“I wanted people to say, ‘Oh what are you wearing? Gucci?’ No just bin bags.” Cooper told ITV. “My mum did with her two friends Viv and Sharon, but I decided instead of wearing a normal dress I’d donate what I would have spent to charity and wear bin bags. There is a reason behind it”, she added.

There were incredibly amazing detailing in done in her bag gown to match the attire. All the elements were found extremely well-executed. The main body was formulated of ruching and an A-line mass of black binliners.

The gown train was well arranged with rubbish, including a Screw Fix leaflet and a pack of Old El Paso sauce mix was carefully attached to the ensemble.

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Visitors shred the Louvre’s giant paper artwork

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As a part of the 30th anniversary of the Louvre’s glass pyramid, A huge paper collage had been created by French artist JR in the Paris art gallery’s courtyard on Friday. This artwork had been created with 400 volunteers, with 2,000 sheets of paper.

But on Saturday, the artwork was torned by the visitors walking over it. JR said of his 17,000 sq m (183,000 sq ft) work, “Once pasted, the art piece lives on its own”.

This was really a “disappointing experience” for the Louvre pyramid’s 30th anniversary, says some art lovers to the media.

JR is not a new artist to the Paris’ famous art institution. He had given the pyramid a very different treatment, three years ago, covering it in a giant trompe-l’oeil that made it seem like it had disappeared.

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Picasso’s Stolen portrait, Dora Maar found after 20 years

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Dora Maar, the stolen Picasso painting has been found out by A Dutchman known as the “Indiana Jones of the art world”. This painting worth 25 million euros ($28.3 million) had been stolen from a Saudi shaikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.

Arthur Brand says that this portrait was there at the Dutch criminal underworld after it had been stolen. Brand claimed that the painting was handed back to an insurance company. The ‘Portrait of Dora Maarwhich’ was first painted in 1938, and it is also known as Buste de Femme (Dora Maar).

Dora Maar was the lover and muse of the great artist Pablo Picasso, for seven years. It is believed that Picasso had kept this portrait hung in his room until his death.

Arthur Brand had found this painting of the most influential mistresses of Pablo Picasso after a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island.

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Have a glimpse at These Ancient European Artists

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.

Check out some of his famous paintings:

  • Bacchus
  • Mona lisa
  • Salvator Mundi
  • The Last Supper
  • The Virgin and Child with St. Anne

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. A number of Michelangelo’s works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.

  • Angel
  • Delphic Sibyl
  • Pieta
  • The Creation of Adam
  • The Last Judgment

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

  • Family of Saltimbanques
  • Guernica
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • The Old Guitarist

Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance. He was born in Prato, Tuscany, the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti. His major works are: The Coronation of the Virgin, Madonna with Child, St Anthony of Padua and a Friar, Tobias and the Angel etc.

  • Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard
  • Madonna with Child and Saints
  • Portrait of a Youth
  • Portrait of an Old Man
  • Tobias and the Angel

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Hedgehog Cookies

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Cookies, the baked food are always children’s favorite. The children would love to have some specially made and decorated cookies. Excite your child with some Hedgehog Cookies!

Ingredients

  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/4 cups white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup butter-flavored shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup corn syrup
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 cup pecans

Preparation

In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk sugar, shortening, corn syrup, eggs, and vanilla extract in another bowl. Stir the sugar mixture into flour mixture till it got mixed. Refrigerate dough until chilled, 30 minutes to 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Scoop the cookie dough using a cookie scoop or 1 tablespoon so all the cookies are uniform; shape dough into teardrop-shaped cookies. Flatten the pointed side of each cookie to form the ‘face’. Place cookies on baking sheets. Bake in the preheated oven until golden, for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Pulse pecans in a food processor until they are finely chopped; transfer to a bowl. Melt chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching.

Dip the top of each cookie in the melted chocolate, spreading to fully coat the ‘body’ of each hedgehog. Press cookies, chocolate-side down, into the ground pecans forming the ‘fur’. Arrange cookies on a sheet of waxed paper to set, about 30 minutes. Transfer the remaining melted chocolate to a piping bag or plastic bag with a corner snipped. Pipe chocolate onto the pointed end of each cookie for eyes and a nose.

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