Ascension - Framed Prints Frame:Framed with Mat perhaps a cafe or brothel

perhaps a cafe or brothel

The painting appears to have come from a 500-year-old book containing the family history of the Duke of Milan

pink and orange mixed in

As a successful stockbroker Gauguin initially dabbled in painting only as a hobby

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges

Ascension - Framed Prints Frame:Framed with Mat perhaps a cafe or brothelThis picture combines two of Dalis abiding interests of the 1950s: his obsession with a mystic form of Catholicism and his fascination with nuclear physics. The painting is dated 1958 and belongs to a series of images of Christ that came to Dal in a dream in 1950. Inspired by the nucleus of an atom, the artist imagined Christs ascent unifying heaven and earth.