$4,200,000
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Adolph von Menzel
Oil on canvas · 1852
The Iron Rolling Mill
Year: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 158 × 254 cm
$5,500,000
One of the first major paintings to depict industrial labour, this monumental canvas captures workers in a steel rolling mill bathed in the hellish glow of molten metal. It is considered the masterpiece of Menzel's realist period.