The Badminton Cabinet was acquired in December 2004 at the Christie's auction for $36.8 million by the Museum of Liechtenstein, where it is still exhibited. It was made in the 18th century in Florence. The cabinet with drawers is made of ebony encrusted with amethyst, quartz, lapis lazuli and other semiprecious stones. It is a monument of furniture art, architecture, sculpture, and painting at the same time.
Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is known for being the first in the history of cars to reach speeds of up to 200 km/h. It is noteworthy that in the period from 1936 to 1940, only four models of such automobile were produced, of which only two copies have survived to date. Aqua blue one was sold in May 2010 at the auction of Gooding & Company to an unknown collector for $43.7 million, and the second one is black and belongs to American fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
In May 2015, the Pointing Man sculpture was sold at Christie's auction in New York for $141.3 million. A 180-centimeter figure was created by Swiss master Alberto Giacometti in 1947. It is made of bronze and painted by the author manually, which, according to experts, gives it special value and uniqueness. The sculpture symbolizes the alienation and loneliness of a person in the modern world.
In November 2016, the dress in which Marilyn Monroe performed at the 45th birthday of US President John F. Kennedy was sold at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills for $4.8 million. The dress, adorned with 2500 crystals, was produced by well-known at that time in America fashion designer Jean Louis. It is known that when in March 1961 the actress was offered to sing before the head of state, she asked the couturier to make for her an extraordinary dress that no one ever had before.
In November 2017, the Savior of the World painting, created by Leonardo da Vinci, was sold at Christie's auction in New York for $450.3 million. Before the auction, the masterpiece was estimated at $100 million. According to some experts, the canvas, long believed to be lost, refers to the end of the Milanese period of the work of Leonardo da Vinci (90 of the 15th century), when the master wrote the famous The Last Supper.
In April last year at Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, the Pink Star diamond, weighing 59.6 carats, went under the hammer for $ 71.2 million. It should be noted that in 2013 the gem was already put up for auction. Diamond cutter from Geneva Isaac Wolf offered $83 million for the stone but could not pay for it.
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