Some artists destroy it, some artists sell it, but most famous artists have destroyed or sold some of their artworks.

This is not an uncommon thing for artists to do.

In the past, artists had little control over where their works ended up and how they were preserved. Today, many of these works are lost forever.

It’s important to take great care of your work. Please don’t be like these famous artists who destroyed their own art. If you want to know more about the story behind famous artists who destroyed their own art, read on!

Artists who did this include Modigliani, Gauguin and Picasso. You can see their artworks at auction, and they are not easy to find. There are still many examples of destroyed artworks by famous artists out there.

Titian was one of the most famous artists from the Venice region in Italy. His original name was Tiziano Vecelli and he painted some of the most beautiful artworks in history. But then something shocking happened to him. He destroyed all his paintings. Every single one of them.

This is a famous story among artists: when your work becomes more famous than you, you destroy it. The paintings that we know so well were once called “unrecognizable”, “ugly” and other things by critics. Sometimes the artist himself would describe his own artwork as ugly or weak.

Nowadays, we think that every artwork is good by default, but this is not true at all. In fact, some of the most famous artworks were destroyed because they were considered bad at first! It’s interesting to see how art evolves over time.”

According to the National Gallery in London, Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime. He had no interest in money and often gave his paintings away.

Despite this, his work is today among the most popular and valuable in the world. His oil paintings sell for $100 million, his famous Starry Night recently fetched a record $82m (£41m) at auction.

But did you know that he himself destroyed up to 900 paintings?

He was never satisfied with any of them and believed all he painted was doomed to failure: “What I do is too little and incommensurate with the great gift of God that has been given me.”

Eventually he became convinced that he was wasting his time painting, and stopped entirely in 1890. But before he did so, he destroyed many of his works.

Artists, especially established artists, have sometimes destroyed their own work. This may seem odd or even shocking, but it is true and I’ll try to explain why it was done and why it still remains important today.

“…the only thing which interests me in painting is the creation of a new world. To this end everything is useful: a model, an old hat, a piece of rope…” Paul C�zanne (1839-1906)

Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the piece above and will see some examples of how art can be used in other ways besides the ones we normally think of.

The art world lost a valuable treasure when Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, famous for his mathematically inspired woodcuts and lithographs, accidentally burned many of his prints.

In 1954, while working on a new print, Escher left his house with a pile of freshly printed proofs. He had intended to show them to the printers that very day, but left them in his car for too long and they were destroyed by the heat. Some were salvaged from the ashes and these were used to make new sets of prints.

But some of these early prints were never recovered; their destruction occurred before they had been widely distributed. Because of this fact, they are extremely rare today. Escher took the loss of these prints hard; he felt that he had destroyed part of his life’s work.

Some artists destroy their own work out of anger or frustration at not being able to capture what they want on canvas or paper. Others do it as a way to make more money by reducing supply. Vincent Van Gogh is famous for having cut off part of his ear while in an agitated state after learning that he may have syphilis (though there are some who believe it is actually someone else’s ear). He then sent the severed ear to his lover as proof

One of the greatest artworks of the 20th century was destroyed by its creator in a fit of pique.

It was a cartoon, drawn on a restaurant napkin in 1958. It depicted two policemen, one saying to the other: “Can you draw?” The second policeman replied: “No, but I can write.”

The cartoon’s creator was the British-born American artist William Hogarth Hughes (1906-1997). The police sketch was so good that it won Hogarth Hughes an award from New York’s elite Cartoonists and Artists Club.

Trouble was, he didn’t want an award. He wanted his own work to be shown alongside those of his hero, James Montgomery Flagg — known for his iconic Uncle Sam wartime posters — and wasn’t satisfied with winning a mere prize. He scrawled a note across the bottom of the cartoon: “This is unworthy of Mr. Flagg,” adding: “Please remove from display.”

And so it did, though in 1991 another of his cartoons — this one depicting two tourists admiring a sculpture that consists solely of two enormous ears — was sold at auction for £6,500 (then about $10,000).

What happened to Hogarth Hughes’s original police sketch? He