One of the most celebrated sculptures in the world, is The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace. is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike (the Greek goddess of victory), that

“An artist is only appreciated after he is dead” — it is quoted enough to have come out of the Bible. Whatever the source, it exists as a truism of the life of the artist and of the art market as well.