"Crafts movement, were gilded with gold leaf. Klimt had begun using gold in his 1890 portrait of the pianist Joseph Pembauer, but his first work that included a golden theme was ""Pallas Athene"" (1898). The art historian Gilles Néret considers that the use of gold in the painting ""underlines the essential erotic ingredient in ... [Klimt's] view of the world"". Néret also states that Klimt used the gold to give subjects a sacred or magical quality. was from a wealthy Jewish Viennese family. Her father was a director of the , the seventh largest bank in Austria-Hungary, and the general"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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:"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"the national identity. Altmann is told that the painting was in fact legitimately willed to the gallery by her aunt. Upon further investigation by her lawyer and Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin, this claim proves to be incorrect, as the alleged will is invalid due to the fact that her aunt did not own the painting in question, the artist's fee having been paid by Altmann's uncle; moreover, Adele Bloch-Bauer wanted the painting to go to the museum at her husband's death while in fact it was taken from him by the Nazis and placed in the museum by a Nazi-collaborating"
"works in private hands. The painting measured 10 by 15 feet. On November 10, 2014, items from Mellon's collection of paintings, jewelry, furniture, and decorative objects were auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for a total of $158.7 million, including ""Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange)"" by Rothko, which sold for $36.5 million, and another Rothko that went for $39.9 million. Three of her most important paintings, two by Rothko and one by Richard Diebenkorn, were sold privately before the Sotheby's auction for a reported $250 million. Proceeds from the sales benefited the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation, a charitable entity"
"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"
"system. The high court remanded the case for trial in the Los Angeles district court. Back in the district court, both parties agreed to non-binding arbitration in Austria in 2005, which in turn ruled in favor of Altmann on 16 January 2006. Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of two of the paintings, had written in her last will: """"Meine 2 Porträts und 4 Landschaften von Gustav Klimt, bitte ich meinen Ehegatten nach seinem Tode der österr. Staats-Galerie in Wien zu hinterlassen"";"" that is, ""I ask my husband to bequeath my 2 portraits and the 4 landscapes by Gustav Klimt to the"
"of Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer. It remained in the Spencer family until it was put up for sale on 16 October 1985 as lot 146 at Christie's, London, when a Janez Mercun in Geneva acquired it. It came up for auction again at Christie's on 3 December 2003 where it was sold for £251,650 (then US$435,355). Though famous in her time as ""the German Sappho"" and praised by Goethe, not much of Gabriele von Baumberg's work is notable today, but Franz Schubert set six of her poems to music. Von Baumberg was born on 25 March 1768 in Linz;"
"of the head. On May 15, 2013, the painting sold for $56.1 million, including fees, at Christie's. It was bought by jeweller Laurence Graff who said: ""It's a masterpiece and when you see a major one like this come up for sale, you only get one chance to get it...Plus, I've got a big birthday coming up."" Graff, whose 75th birthday is on June 13, outbid three telephone bidders with a winning bid of $50 million and auction fees that brought the total to $56.1 million. The auction, which was expected to exceed $30 million, coincided with the Lichtenstein retrospective"
"Deborah Rosenthal with a foreword by Martica Sawin. Paalen's relatively small oeuvre of roughly 300 canvases, a few objects and some sculptures was mostly traded privately and through specialized galleries in the past. Only minor works appear from time to time in public auctions, as most of the major works are in museums or well-established private collections. In 2009 however, Christie's auctioned Paalen's important 1938 surrealist fumage painting ""Paysage (Pays) médusé"" (oil and smoke on canvas). Estimated at US$40–50,000, the realised price was US$561,000, setting a new record for the highest price paid at auction for this artist. Wolfgang Paalen"
"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"
"of nearly US$120 million at auction on 2 May 2012. The bidding started at $40 million and lasted for over 12 minutes when American businessman Leon Black by phone gave the final offer of US$119,922,500, including the buyer's premium. Sotheby's said the work was the most colorful and vibrant of the four versions painted by Munch and the only version whose frame was hand-painted by the artist to include his poem, detailing the work's inspiration. After the sale, Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer said the work was ""worth every penny"", adding: ""It is one of the great icons of art in"
"the painting back on display. From there it was bought by the Brodys in 1951, and was publicly exhibited only once in 1961, to commemorate Picasso's 80th birthday. Frances Brody died in November 2009. On May 4, 2010, the painting was sold at Christie's in New York City, who won the rights to auction the collection against London-based Sotheby's. The collection as a whole was valued at over US$150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $80 million at auction. There were eight bidders at the auction house, while the winning bid was taken via telephone for ."
"agreed to binding arbitration by a panel of three Austrian judges. On 16 January 2006, the arbitration panel ruled that Austria was legally required to return the art to Altmann and the other family heirs, and in March of the same year Austria returned the paintings. The paintings were estimated to be collectively worth at least $150 million when returned. In monetary terms this represented the largest single return of Nazi-looted art in Austria. The paintings left Austria in March 2006 and were on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until June 30, 2006. Months after the"
"in question should be returned to the Bloch-Bauer estate, as outlined in Ferdinand's will; only the ""Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl"" was to be retained by the gallery. After the panel's decision was announced, the Galerie Belvedere ran a series of advertisements that appeared in bus stops and on underground railway platforms. The posters said ""Ciao Adele"", advertising the last opportunity before the painting left the country and long queues formed around the block. Although there were calls from some Austrians for the state to purchase the five paintings, the government stated that the price would be too high to justify"
"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);"
"alleged involvement in fraudulent land sales in Texas, his ties to a Masonic order, or an unknown jealous lover of Alice was behind the killing. A painting of ""The Ravine of the Desert (The Valley of Mexico)"" was sold at Christie's New York in 2007 for $384,000. His painting ""The Valley of Mexico "" (1837) is in the British Government Art Collection. Attribution: Daniel Thomas Egerton Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797–1842), was a British landscape painter, Egerton was one of the original members of the Society of British Artists, where he exhibited in the years 1824 to 1829, and in 1838"
"that attribution it remained until it was sold to an Austrian family in 1920. It was subsequently loaned in 1923 to Stift Reichersberg, a monastery in northern Austria. In 2001, the painting was seen by George Gordon, an expert in Flemish and Dutch paintings at Sotheby's in London. He was persuaded that it was indeed a Rubens by its similar characteristics and style to the ""Samson and Delilah"" painted around the same time. The work was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on July 10, 2002 for £49.5 million (C$117 million) to Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson, 2nd"
"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"
"Sotheby's in 1998. His children, with wife Constance (Marantz), include Adam Emmerich, a lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, producer Toby Emmerich and actor Noah Emmerich. Emmerich died following a stroke in Manhattan on September 25, 2007, aged 82. André Emmerich's papers and gallery records were donated to the Archives of American Art between 1999 and 2002. Two additional accretions were donated by Emmerich's wife Susanne in 2008 and 2009, and another by James Yohe, Emmerich's former business partner, in 2009. André Emmerich André Emmerich (October 11, 1924 – September 25, 2007) was a German-born American gallerist who specialized"
"painting was owned by Alice and Paul Friedrich Leffmann, originally of Cologne. The painting currently resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was donated to the museum in 1952 by automobile heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy, daughter of Walter Chrysler, the founder of the Chrysler automobile company. Experts estimate that the painting, which is one of the largest from Picasso's Rose Period, is worth more than US$100 million. The painting portrays an acrobat in a dramatic pose with an abstract design in the background. The canvas measures by . ""The Actor"" was damaged on January 25,"
"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"
"was purchased for 50 florins by the Bohemian-Austrian Count Rudolf Czernin. It was placed on public display in the Czernin Museum in Vienna. Until 1860, the painting was considered to be by Vermeer's contemporary Pieter de Hooch; Vermeer was little known until the late 19th century. Hooch's signature was even forged on the painting. It was at the intervention of the German art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen that it was recognised as a Vermeer original. In 1935 Count Jaromir Czernin had tried to sell the painting to Andrew W. Mellon, but the Austrian government prohibited the export of the painting."
"and family papers, including art and craftwork by the Volks, and art they had collected. In October 2006, the contents grossed more than $700,000 at auction, drawing especially high prices for two paintings by the illustrator Howard Pyle and photographs of Native Americans by the Norwegian Frederick Monsen (1865–1929). One item sold at the 2006 auction was Marion Larrabee Volk's first Sabatos rug. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His students included artists Russell Cowles, Benjamin Orso Eggleston, Susan Ricker Knox, Ada Murphy, Ella Bennett Sherman, Adele Rogers Shrenk, and Helen Maria Turner. He"