Artrivia

In 1985, a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite sold at auction for $160,000, making it the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. Etched with the initials “Th. J”, the undrinkable Bordeaux came from the cellars of Thomas Jefferson and is now in the Forbes collection. The highest price for a drinkable bottle of wine is $23,929, paid for a 1978 Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Refusing to yield while bidding on the lot of seven bottles, two avid collectors got carried away at the Sotheby’s auction in New York in 2001.

Yousuf Karsh

Winston Churchill, 1941, 1982 Silver Gelatin Print. The most widely reproduced portrait in the history of photography, this memorable portrait of a glowering, defiant Winston Churchill, which symbolized Britain’s indomitable wartime courage, brought Karsh international prominence. This is one of a fifteen-photo portfolio.
Photo courtesy of Haynes Galleries.

Great art usually comes with a price—and sometimes unbelievably so. The highest-priced painting sold is Jackson Pollock’s No. 5 (1948), which sold for a record-breaking $140 million in November of 2006. The real question left now is, “Where do you hang it?”

Read about the Top Ten Most Expensive Paintings

Where Are You Now?

photography by Anthony Scarlati

These beautiful statues can be found throughout Nashville’s landscape. Do you know where they are?

1.Battle of Nashville Monument, Granny White Pike

2. Centennial Park, Confederate Private Monument

3. Mt. Olivet Cemetery

4. The Recording Angel, Schermerhorn Symphony Center

5. Gay Street & Woodland Street

6. Owen Bradley Park, Music Row