"To have a canvas from Arles by that very self-taught artist at the height of his work marks the sale as momentous," said Clifford Edwards, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who is a Van Gogh expert.
In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.
No two numbers better show how Astaire went on extending his art beyond the heights of his work with Rogers.
Choreographed by Michael Peters, it doesn't actually ascend the heights of his work for Beat It, and comes nowhere near the sexual incandescence of Smooth Criminal, but that's probably why it's so popular – you don't need to be ridiculously gifted to dance it.
In 2007, at the height of the boom, auction sales of his work added up to $428m, the highest turnover of any artist.
Others also recognized the development of his work since the height of Impressionism, including the dealer Georges Bernheim, who in 1891 wrote to Pissarro: "Your moment has come!" In 1892 Durand-Ruel held a large and successful retrospective of Pissarro's work, and for the first time the artist achieved some financial stability.
Rashomon, which won the Grand Prix at Venice as well as the Oscar for best foreign language film, is an example not only of the great Kurosawa at the height of his powers – working with his regular collaborator, the imposing Toshiro Mifune – but of cinematic storytelling at its most daring.
He seems to have reached the height of his powers in work from the mid-1940's to the late 1970's, producing imagery of fluid, poetic eloquence.
At the height of his career he worked at a furious pace, most productively in the 1960s, reinventing himself as a matter of course.
From about 1855 to 1874 Inness ascended to the height of his powers with works such as the Delaware Water Gap (1861) and the Delaware Valley (1865).
At the height of his career, Spratt worked at parties for banks, charities and minor celebrities, and made appearances on TV shows such as Time Trumpet.
