Lost on the Grand Banks

{{short description|Painting by Winslow Homer}}

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| medium = Oil on canvas

| artist = Winslow Homer

| year = {{Start date|1885}}

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Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with The Herring Net and The Fog Warning, painted in the same year, it depicts the hard lives of North Atlantic fishermen in Prouts Neck, Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-fog-warning-31042|title=The Fog Warning: Halibut Fishing, 1885 |publisher=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |accessdate=September 27, 2014}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/25865|title=The Herring Net, 1885 |year=1885 |publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago |accessdate=August 30, 2016}}

The painting was bought in 1998 by Bill Gates, then-chairman of Microsoft, who reportedly paid $30 million for the seascape, at the time a record price for an American painting.{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Sale of Homer Seascape Sets Record |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/05/us/sale-of-homer-seascape-sets-record.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 5, 1998 }}