"front of a golden starry background. Around her neck is the same jewelled choker Klimt included in the ""Judith"" painting. She wears a tight golden dress in a triangular shape, made up of rectilinear forms. In places the dress merges into the background so much so that the museum curator Jan Thompson writes that ""one comes across the model almost by accident, so enveloped is she in the thick geometric scheme"". Peter Vergo, writing for Grove Art, considers that the painting ""marks the height of ... [Klimt's] gold-encrusted manner of painting"". Adele's hair, face, ""décolletage"" and hands are painted in"
"the expense. The paintings were exported from Austria in March 2006 and exhibited together at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from April to June that year. When Altmann was asked what she wanted to do with the paintings, she stated ""I would not want any private person to buy these paintings, ... It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would have been the wish of my aunt."" In June 2006 the ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" was sold to Ronald Lauder for $135 million, at the"
"""Adele Bloch-Bauer II"" (1912) was sold at auction at Christie's in New York fetching almost $88 million. In total, the four remaining paintings sold at auction for $192.7 million; coupled with the Lauder-bought painting the sum total was approximately $325 million. The proceeds were divided up among several heirs. A share of the money earned through the sale of the pictures was used to found the Maria Altmann Family Foundation, which supports the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and other public and philanthropic institutions. Altmann died on February 7, 2011 at her home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of"
"failure to secure a deal with Altmann at an earlier stage. The city of Vienna also asserted that repossessing the paintings was a ""moral duty"". Just months after the Austrian government finally returned Ms. Altmann's family's heirlooms to her, she consigned the Klimts to the auction house Christie's, to be sold on her behalf. ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" sold for allegedly $135 million in a private sale, the others in auction, e.g. ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II"" for $88 million, with the five paintings fetching a total of over $327 million. Maria Altmann's story has been recounted in three"
"July 1938"". Only then did she and her husband escape from Vienna. In June 2006, based on an earlier agreement between Altmann and Ronald Lauder (which was shown in the film), Altmann sold ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" to Lauder's Neue Galerie in New York for $135 million ($ million today), setting a new mark for most expensive painting (since surpassed). Five months later, Altmann sold the companion ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II"" at auction (bought by Oprah Winfrey) for almost $88 million ($ million today), then the fourth-highest priced painting. Woman in Gold (film) Woman in Gold is a"
"the first version was sold at auction for $82.5 million ($ million today), a new mark for the highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until June 2006 by Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. In late 1888, Van Gogh began to experience a mental breakdown, cutting off part of his ear. He stayed in hospital for a month, but was not fully healed and in April 1889 he checked himself into an asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he remained for a year. When he was released in 1890, Van Gogh's brother Theo was searching for a home for the artist"
"until his death in May 2005. In March 2006, two of his sons found a hidden area in Trachte's house, which contained several paintings, including ""Breaking Home Ties"". Further investigation found that Trachte had created copies of several paintings he owned, and hidden the originals, unknown to his family. Thus, the ""Breaking Home Ties"" that had been put on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in 2003, was actually a replica. The museum later placed the original on display, along with the replica. On November 29, 2006, Sotheby's sold the original painting at auction for $15.4 million, which at the"
"Austrian State Gallery in Vienna after his death."" Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer signed a statement acknowledging Adele's wish in her last will. He also donated one of the paintings to the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna in 1936. The Austrian Supreme Court determined that Adele was probably never the legal owner of the paintings. Rather, it viewed it as more likely that Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer was their legal owner and that in turn Altmann was the rightful heir of Ferdinand's estate. The ruling in favor of Maria Altmann came as a great shock to the Austrian public and the government. The loss of the"
"2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever paid for a painting up to that point. On August 7, 2006, Christie's auction house announced it was handling the sale of the remaining four works by Klimt that were recovered by Maria Altmann and her co-heirs after their long legal battle against Austria (see ""Republic of Austria v. Altmann""). Maria Altmann's fight to regain her family's paintings has been the subject of a number of documentary films, including ""Adele's Wish"". Her struggle also became the subject of the dramatic film the ""Woman in Gold"", a movie inspired by ""Stealing"
"a record for the highest price paid for a piece of art with the purchase of a Jackson Pollock painting from David Geffen. Pollock's painting ""No. 5, 1948"" sold for US$140 million (£73m), on 1 November 2006. However, the auction expert Josh Baer stated that Martinez was not the buyer of the painting. In addition, Shearman & Sterling issued a press release on behalf of its client, David Martinez, to announce that contrary to articles in the press, Martinez does not own the painting or any rights to acquire it. In October 2012, however, the New York Times reported that"
"men invaded the museum and took away Picasso's ""Portrait of Suzanne Bloch"" and Portinari's ""O lavrador de café"" from the museum collection. The whole action took about three minutes. The estimated value of the works was US$55 million, with the portrait alone valued at US$50 million. The paintings, which are listed as Brazilian National Heritage by IPHAN, remained missing until January 8, 2008, when they were recovered in Ferraz de Vasconcelos by the Police of São Paulo. The paintings were returned, undamaged, to the São Paulo Museum of Art. The painting was exhibited at the Thannhauser Gallery in Berlin (1913);"
"Cemetery. Several of her works have been sold at auction, including ""St. Augustine Street Scene depicting a Black Woman Outside a St. Augustine House"" (sold 2013). Adolfo Müller-Ury Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG (March 29, 1862 – July 6, 1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life. He was born Felice Adolfo Müller on 29 March 1862 at Airolo, Switzerland, to a prominent patrician family that by the 18th and 19th centuries included mercenaries, lawyers, hoteliers and businessmen. Adolfo was the sixth of nineteen children, most of whom survived infancy, born to Roman Catholic parents:"
"influential Bloch-Bauer family, and the family's relationship with the painter Gustav Klimt, who was regularly commissioned by Maria's wealthy Uncle Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer to paint portraits of his wife Adele Bloch-Bauer, a prominent Jewish patron of the arts. It also depicts Altmann and her family’s relationships with eclectic notables such as Joan Sutherland, Walter Slezak, Hedy Lamarr, Placido Domingo, Danny Thomas, Gary Cooper, Ezio Pinza, Paul Henreid and others, and Altmann and her husband Fritz's escape from Austria during the Anschluss, fleeing through Holland, England and Massachusetts, and their eventual nesting in Los Angeles. In 2012, a year and a half"
"on paper by the artist to £7.88 million. On 21 June 2013 Auctionata in Berlin sold a watercolor from 1916, ""Reclining Woman"" at an online auction for €1.827 million (US $2.418 million). This is a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at an online auction. Egon Schiele Egon Schiele (; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced,"
"novel ""Stolen Beauty"" by Laurie Lico Albanese. The portrait is featured in the memoir of Gregor Collins, ""The Accidental Caregiver"", about his relationship with Maria Altmann, published in August 2012. The book was dramatised for the stage in January 2015. In 2015 Altmann's story was dramatised for the film ""Woman in Gold"" starring Helen Mirren as Maria and Ryan Reynolds as Schoenberg. Altmann died in February 2011, aged 94. Schoenberg, who had worked on a 40 per cent conditional fee throughout, received $54 million for the sale of ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" and $55 million for the sale of"
"Sigmund Freud) and Francis Bacon have produced powerful paintings. Bacon's portraits are notable for their nightmarish quality. In May 2008, Freud's 1995 portrait ""Benefits Supervisor Sleeping"" was sold by auction by Christie's in New York City for $33.6 million, setting a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist. Many contemporary American artists, such as Andy Warhol, Alex Katz and Chuck Close, have made the human face a focal point of their work. Warhol was one of the most prolific portrait painters in the 20th-century. Warhol's painting ""Orange Shot Marilyn"" of Marilyn Monroe is an iconic"
"piano pieces were published in France and Germany as well as in the United States. Amongst her songs were 'O Salutaris', 'Bird of Love', 'First Love', and an Ave Maria. She was a patron of the Metropolitan Opera House and numbered many singers and prima donnas amongst her friends. During the winter of 1896–1897, she commissioned the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) to paint a portrait of the bass-baritone Pol Plançon for her, which was subsequently exhibited in March 1897 at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York. It is now untraced. After her death on 7 November 1913 she"
"Ginevra de' Benci Ginevra de' Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de' Benci (born ). The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1967. The sum of US$5 million—an absolute record price at the time—came from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and was paid to the Princely House of Liechtenstein. It is the only painting by Leonardo on public view in the Americas. Ginevra de' Benci, a well-known young Florentine woman, is universally considered to be the portrait's sitter. Leonardo painted the portrait in"
"estimate of $25–35 million at Christie's on 5 November 2014. The previous auction record was held by ""Self-Portrait With Palette"" which sold for $33.2 million at Sotheby's on 22 June 2010. Short introductory works: Longer works: Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (; ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the future originally envisioned for him, and became engrossed in the"
"Gogh’s ""Portrait of Doctor Gachet"" sold for $82.5 million. In November 2013, $142.4 million was paid for the 1969 triptych, ""Three Studies of Lucian Freud"", by Francis Bacon. The highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction was Pablo Picasso's ""Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)"" (Women of Algiers) that was sold by Christie's in May 2015 for $179.4 million. Sotheby's and Christie's has become major dealers of Chinese porcelain antiques. As of 2016, some of the best collections had been auctioned for tens of millions US Dollars, through Sotheby's and Christie's. In the 21st Century, and especially since 2010,"
"were exhibited in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London. One, a vertical composition of four self-portraits, had already been sold to the American collector Steven A. Cohen. In 2007 another pope painting by Bacon, sold by Ponti in 1991, was sold in a private deal brokered by Acquavella Galleries in New York for more than £15 million. That same year, ""Study for Portrait II"" (1956) was consigned by Loren at Christie's; it was auctioned for the record price of £14.2 million ($27.5 million). Ponti died in Geneva, Switzerland, from pulmonary complications on 10 January 2007. He was survived"
"sold in 2013 for $142 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold. Deakin's photos of Freud also inspired a series of paintings by Jasper Johns, ""Jasper Johns: Regrets"", which were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014. Freud and Bacon appeared as two of the ""Eight Portraits"", an unpublished manuscript of photos and writings which was discovered after Deakin's death. In this work, Deakin wrote of Bacon: ""He's an odd one, wonderfully tender and generous by nature, yet with curious streaks of cruelty, especially to friends. I think that in this portrait I managed"
"on public display in 1937 at the Lower Saxony State Museum, was offered by the Bremer auction house Bolland & Marotz and sold at a price of 670,000 euros. Due to the historical significance of the painting it was registered in the directory of German cultural heritage. It is believed that there are two copies which were given to the Duchess (now in the Heidelberg Palatinate Museum) and to George III of the United Kingdom (now in the Royal Collection). Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia The Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia is a portrait of Frederick II of"
"print was originally acquired by the Galerie Monika Sprüth in Cologne, and subsequently bought by an anonymous German collector. The collector sold the print by auction at Christie's New York on 8 November 2011, who estimated it would fetch a price of $2.5–3.5m. It actually sold for $4,338,500 (then about £2.7m); the identity of the buyer has not been revealed. The work has been described by arts writer Florence Waters in ""The Daily Telegraph"" as a ""vibrant, beautiful and memorable – I should say unforgettable – contemporary twist on [...] the romantic landscape"" and by journalist Maev Kennedy in ""The"
"in the collection of the Berlin bank president Jakob Goldschmidt. Goldschmidt immigrated to New York City in 1936, taking his collection with him, and died there in 1955. In 1958 the painting was bought by J. Summers for 65,000. Later the collector couple John and Frances L. Loeb from New York acquired the painting for $176,800. At the auction of the Loeb collection on 12 May 1997 the painting was sold for $18.7 million to an anonymous bidder. At that time it was the second highest price ever paid for a work by Manet. Shortly thereafter the new owner was"
"1830. It was exhibited in the collection of the art dealer Katz in 1938 and was subsequently in the collections of André Meyer and Wildenstein & Co. In 2017 it was sold from the divided estate of Paul-Louis Weiller for GBP 3,368,750. Portrait of Petronella Buys Portrait of Petronella Buys (1610–1670) is a 1635 portrait painting painted by Rembrandt. It shows a young woman with a very large and impressive millstone collar. It is in a private collection. Several oval portraits of a woman of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits."
"Christian and Cherise Moueix, proprietors of the prestigious wine-estate, Château Pétrus, via the Swiss dealer, Bouvier. Rybolovlev learnt that Bouvier had actually bought the painting (rather than simply acting as a dealer) from Christian and Cherise Moueix for ~€80,000,000 before selling it on to Rybolovlev for €140,000,000. No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Russian-American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 6"" consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it"
"in 2006 for $95,000. Hildegarde Muller-Uri (born 1894, Greenwich Village, New York City – died 1990) – actually born Hildegarde Petronella Bernhardina Muller – an American visual artist, was a relative, and in fact a third cousin, of Müller-Ury. She was the eldest daughter of amateur artist Henry Muller and his wife Wihelmina, both of whom were of course natives of Canton Uri in Switzerland. Henry Muller had moved from New York to San Augustine in around 1898 to work as a chef in one of Henry Flagler's hotels, and later became to builder and owner of the Hotel Marion"
"record price of 5.6 million dollars. The artist's proof is owned by the Broad Art Foundation of businessman and art collector Eli Broad and is displayed in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (It is now at The Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles). The two other versions are in Oslo in the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jeff Koons has stated that his works of art should reach the largest possible audience. For this purpose he sought inspiration in entertainment media, pop culture and Christian art. The depiction"
"the Saint-Émilion estate Château Belair then renamed Chateau Bélair-Monange. Jean-Pierre Moueix retired in 1978 and died in 2003. In 1991 his son Christian Moueix became president of JP Moueix, while the grandson Edouard Moueix in the company since 2003 is today Deputy General Manager . Prolific art collectors, the Moueix family sold the painting ""Triptych 1976"" by Francis Bacon in April, 2008, originally purchased by Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1977. In an auction at Sotheby's New York the work was purchased for US$ 86.3 million by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, recording the highest price paid for a postwar work of"
"again. It later surfaces in the collection of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor at Longford Castle, Salisbury. In a catalogue of the Radnor family's collection, published in 1909, stated that the portrait was part of the collection by 1814 and may have been acquired in 1811. It remained in the ownership of the Radnor family for over 150 years until it was sold at Christie's in London for the record sum of £2,310,000 (or 2,200,000 guineas or $5,544,000) on 27 November 1970. It was the first painting to sell for more than a £1,000,000, setting a new record for"
"was interred in Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris. In February 2006, an oil painting of his controversial and iconic series ""Le Bœuf Écorché"" (1924) sold for a record £7.8 million ($13.8 million) to an anonymous buyer at a Christie's auction held in London—after it was estimated to fetch £4.8 million. In February 2007, a 1921 portrait of an unidentified man with a red scarf ""(L'Homme au Foulard Rouge)"" by Chaim Soutine sold for $17.2 million—a new record—at Sotheby's London auction house. In May 2015, ""Le Bœuf"", circa 1923, oil on canvas, achieved a record price for the artist of $28,165,000 at"
"University awarded the artist an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. Marden has been represented by the Gagosian Gallery since 2017. He had previously worked with Matthew Marks Gallery for more than twenty years. One of Marden's paintings sold for nearly $3 million at Christie's in May 2006. Marden’s ""Cold Mountain I (Path)"" (1988–89), managed to almost double his auction record from May 2008 when it sold at Sotheby's for $9,602,500 on an $10–15 million estimate. In 2013, Steven A. Cohen sold ""The Attended"" (1996-9) for $10.9 million at Sotheby's New York. In 1960, Brice Marden married Pauline Baez"