Harry Herman Roseland "To the Highest Bidder" 1906
"To the Highest Bidder" by Harry Herman Roseland - Oprah Winfrey who has called this her favorite painting in her personal collection. a pre-Civil War scene, depicts a mother and daughter that are about to be separated by a slave auction. The somber desperation in the mother's eyes both shames and challenges the viewer: "How can you look at me, and know what is about to happen, and yet do nothing?"