The article discusses a private collection exhibition in Caraglio, Piedmont, by Matteo Viglietta and Bruna Girodengo, featuring over 100 works from their 1,000-piece collection. The show runs at Cesac art centre in Caraglio until December 30, 2007 and includes works by Nan Goldin, Bill Viola, Olafur Eliasson, Mike Kelley, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gregor Schneider, Paul McCarthy, Andreas Gursky and Tom Wesselmann among others; the earliest piece is Medardo Rosso’s Old Man Laughing (circa 1920). The collection has previously been viewable by appointment at the couple’s home in Busca, and purchases are made from galleries such as White Cube, Hauser & Wirth, Lia Rumma, and Yvon Lambert.
David Hockney’s The Splash, a 1966 swimming-pool painting, sold for $5.35 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London. The buyer was Eykyn Maclean; the painting was previously owned by David Geffen and associated with Norman Pattiz/Culver City-based Westwood One.
Egon Schiele’s 1914 painting Sonnenblumen, or Wilted Sunflowers (Autumn Sun II), sold for $13.23 million at a Christie’s International auction in London. The work, previously owned by Karl Gruenwald and confiscated by Nazi authorities, was identified as an original Schiele only after a valuation by its most recent owner, who then returned it to Gruenwald’s heirs.
A Modigliani portrait of a woman in a black hat, titled Jeanne Hebuterne (au Chapeau), from 1919, fetched $26.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. The seller was Marvin Schein and the buyer was not identified. Sotheby’s had set a prior 2004 record for a Hebuterne picture at $31.3 million.
Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) is discussed, noting Ronald S. Lauder’s reported $135 million purchase and the painting’s luxury materials and opulent Viennese context.
Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, a gold-encrusted portrait, was sold for a record price to a New York museum co-founded by Ronald S. Lauder; the painting had been at the center of a battle over Nazi-looted art and was sold by Maria Altmann’s family. The sale eclipsed Picasso’s record, with press reports citing about $135 million.
Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was purchased by Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, a record price for a painting. The work had been the focus of a restitution dispute involving Maria Altmann and her relatives, tied to Nazi seizures during World War II.
The 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt was sold for a record price to a New York museum co-founded by Ronald S. Lauder, after a prolonged restitution battle led by Maria Altmann; the painting will go to the Neue Galerie in New York. The sale amount was reported as $135 million by The New York Times, eclipsing the previous record for Picasso’s Boy With a Pipe.
Carol Vogel reports in the New York Times that cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder has purchased Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, for $135 million on behalf of the Neue Galerie. The painting’s restitution history was settled in January with Maria Altmann receiving the artwork and four others by Klimt.
Christie’s reported £13.66 million from the two-day sale of Princess Margaret’s private collection, with every lot sold. A Fabergé clock led at £1.24 million, while Pietro Annigoni’s portrait of the princess set an artist auction record at £680,000.
Frida Kahlo’s 1943 self-portrait Roots sold for $5.6 million at Sotheby’s Latin American sales, a record for a work by a Latin American artist at auction. The sale was part of a combined total of about $23 million across Sotheby’s and Christie’s Latin American offerings, with other notable results including Francisco Zuñiga’s Grupo de cuatro mujeres de pie at $3.7 million and Botero’s The Musicians and Cuatro músicos selling for $2.03 million each.
The post discusses the SV-225 violin outfit, describing a hand-carved solid spruce top, solid flamed maple back, sides, neck and scroll, an antique finish, inlaid purfling, ebony fittings, and an aluminum tailpiece with four finetuners, paired with a J. La Salle Brazilwood bow and a Cremona 3-star bridge, as part of a complete outfit including a hard-shell case and accessories.