Did Any Famous Paintings Go Down with the Titanic?
Maya Lin-Takahashi
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La Circassienne Au Bain, Also Known as Une Baigneuse, Was a Large Neoclassical Oil Painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel Depicting a Life-Sized Young...
La Circassienne au Bain, also known as Une Baigneuse, was a large Neoclassical oil painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel depicting a life-sized young Circassian woman bathing in an idealized setting from classical antiquity. The painting was destroyed with the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Did Picasso paintings go down on the Titanic?
Although the painting did exist at the time of the Titanic, it was never aboard – and it never sank with the ship. But the biggest controversy has come from the use of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Many people have questioned if this painting actually sank with the Titanic. Not so.
“We have world exclusive rights to the violin. It was found on the bandmaster's body a few weeks after the sinking and it also holds the world record for the highest price ever paid for a Titanic artifact at $1.7 million,” Said Jodi Justus, Titanic Museum Attraction.
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