Happy Birthday Johannes Vermeer, the 17th century Dutch painter, most famous for his masterpiece, “Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665),” with a top selling lot of over $30 million for his “A young woman seated at the virginals (1670)” in 2004; and Pierre Bonnard, the late 18th early 19th century French painter whose top selling lot at auction made $11.6 million in 2011 for his “Terrasse à Vernon.”
