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Gustav Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, was acquired by Neue Galerie, New York for $135 million, the highest price for a painting at the time. The article notes it is part of a group of five Klimt works that were restituted to the Bloch-Bauer heirs and discusses the complex provenance involving the Nazi seizure and restitution process.
donaldellisgallery.com
The Vancouver Sun reviews Past to Present: Art of the Northwest Coast, a collaborative exhibition between Donald Ellis Gallery and Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. The show places more than 80 historical and contemporary Northwest Coast First Nations works in dialogue, featuring artists such as Dempsey Bob, Sonny Assu, Robert Davidson and Susan Point, alongside historical pieces. Valued at over $3 million, the exhibition includes a Kwakwaka’wakw dance mask and paired works by Dempsey Bob with a Regency-style armchair by Captain Richard Carpenter.
antiquesandthearts.com
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Gustav Klimt’s portrait of a Viennese socialite, went on public display July 13 at New York’s Neue Galerie and remains through September 18. The painting, completed in 1907, has been hailed as one of the world’s most expensive works and has been linked to the Mona Lisa and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in significance.
archive.seattletimes.com
Richard Serra visits Olympic Sculpture Park to supervise installation of his 300-ton steel sculpture 'Wake' at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, with discussion of the park and acquisition of the sculpture by SAM.
artforum.com
Richard Serra’s Equal Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi, which Madrid’s Reina Sofía museum misplaced, will be re-created by Serra as a twin for €78,000 ($99,238); the original cost the museum paid was about $220,000. The new sculpture will be shown next year at the Museum of Modern Art before joining the Reina Sofía’s permanent collection, per Dale Fuchs for the New York Times.