Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Carol Vogel reports on the the most expensive painting ever sold: $135 Millon paid by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for Gustav Klimt's portrait of "Adele Bloch-Bauer I."
It is a wonderful portrait and one of the artist's finest. A true masterpiece. K and I often went to The Belvedere (which will never be the same without it) and other galleries in Vienna to see works by Klimt. From early landscapes to his finest portraits, his paintings are spectacular. Even fine scans do not do them justice. We saw the portrait of "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," and it does not disappoint. The work will now hang in the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, so if you're in NYC, don't miss it.
The winding tale of the ownership, restitution and sale of this masterpiece is a fascinating story and is indicative of the wave of ongoing restitution-related disputes, negotiations and sales in the marketplace for art.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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