‘No 5, 1948’ was sold for $140 million in 2006, who painted it?
"No. 5, 1948 No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. It was sold in May 2006 for $140 million, a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed for the first time until April 2011. The painting was created on fibreboard, also known as composition board, measuring 8’ x 4’. For the paint, Pollock chose to use liquid paints. More specifically, they were synthetic resin paints (gloss enamel) but are referred to as oil paints for classification of the work. On inspection it"
"1948 painting ""No. 5, 1948"" from his collection for $140 million (£73.35 million) to Mexican financier David Martinez. Martinez is the founder of London-based Fintech Advisory Ltd, a financial house that specializes in buying Third World debt. The sale made ""No. 5, 1948"" the most expensive painting ever sold (outstripping the $134 million paid in October 2006 for Gustav Klimt's portrait ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,"" purchased by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder). Wealth-X reported in June 2013 that Geffen owns the most valuable private art collection in the world, and estimated its worth at $1.1B at the time. In February"
"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 became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction. ""No.6 (Violet, Green and Red)"" is one of the works implicated in the infamous Bouvier Affair. It was privately bought for €140 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014. Rybolovlev is thought to have bought the painting from"
"most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000. Another artist record was established in 2004, when ""No. 12"" (1949), a medium-sized drip painting that had been shown in the United States Pavilion at the 1950 Venice Biennale, fetched $11.7 million at Christie's, New York. In 2012, ""Number 28, 1951,"" one of the artist's combinations of drip and brushwork in shades of silvery gray with red, yellow, and shots of blue and white, also sold at Christie's, New York, for $20.5 million—$23 million with fees—within its estimated range of $20 million to"
"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"
"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"
"the film. In 1973, ""Number 11, 1952"" (also known as ""Blue Poles"") was purchased by the Australian Whitlam government for the National Gallery of Australia for US$2 million (A$1.3 million at the time of payment). At the time, this was the highest price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting is now one of the most popular exhibits in the gallery. It was a centerpiece of the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New York, the first time the painting had been shown in America since its purchase. In November 2006, Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"" became the world's"
"and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills Mountains landscape. This was painted as a tribute to Cole upon Cole's death during 1848, and as a gift to Bryant. The painting, donated by Bryant's daughter Julia to the New York Public Library during 1904, was sold by the library by means of Sotheby's at an auction during May 2005 to Alice Walton for a purported $35 million (the sale was performed as a sealed, first bid auction, so the actual sales price is not known). At $35 million, however, it would be a record price paid for an American painting"
"(1953) sold for $44,965,000. The painting had been part of the Schlumberger collection. In May 2014, ""Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange)"" (1955), which had been owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, sold for $56.2 million. In November 2014, a smaller Rothko painting in two shades of brown sold for $3.5 million, within its estimated range of $3 to 4 million. In May 2015, ""Untitled (Yellow and Blue)"" (1954) sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The painting was owned by Rachel Mellon. That month, ""No. 10"" (1958) sold for $81.9 million at a Christies's auction in New"
"1941 by Victor and Sally Ganz of New York City. This purchase began their 50-year collection of works by just five artists: Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Eva Hesse. After the Ganzes died (Victor in 1987 and Sally in 1997), their collection, including ""Le Rêve"", was sold at Christie's auction house on November 11, 1997, as a means of settling their inheritance tax bill. ""Le Rêve"" sold for an unexpectedly high $48.4 million, at the time the fourth most expensive painting sold (tenth when taking inflation into account). The entire collection set a record for the sale"
"was grey, brown, white and yellow paint drizzled in a way that many people still perceive as a ""dense bird’s nest"". Initial reactions to the work by the uninitiated were underwhelming: The painting has been changed by Pollock since it was originally created. During January 1949, it was being shown in a solo Pollock show at the Betty Parsons gallery. It was from here that Alfonso A. Ossorio decided to purchase a ""paint drip"" composition; he chose No. 5, 1948 and paid $1,500. It was the only canvas sold from the show. At some point, presumably during the moving process,"
"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"
"sold for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017. The highest price previously paid for a work of art at auction was for Pablo Picasso's ""Les Femmes d'Alger"", which sold for $179.4 million in May 2015 at Christie's New York. The artist was featured in a number of solo exhibitions from 1948 to 1966, many in New York but also nationally and internationally. Specifically, he had fourteen separate exhibitions and even had two exhibitions per annum in the years 1953, 1964, and 1965. He was featured at the Egan Gallery, the"
"ten-foot wide, untitled black-and-white work from 1957 at Christie's, New York. The painting went to a telephone bidder for $36 million, or $40.4 million with fees (Christie’s guaranteed the seller Robert Mnuchin an undisclosed minimum), a record price for the artist at auction and more than six times the previous record, which was set in 2005 when Christie’s sold ""Crow Dancer"" (1958) for $6.4 million. An early work, ""UNTITLED"", from 1940 (of an interior room) was purchased from Sotheby's in 1995 by a private collector for $21,850. This early piece helps to define his early phase, before his transformation from"
"May 21, 2010 for US $5.2 million. Daybreak (painting) Daybreak is a painting by American artist Maxfield Parrish made in 1922. ""Daybreak"" is regarded as the most popular art print of the 20th century, based on number of prints made: one for every four American homes. According to the National Museum of American Illustration, it has outsold Andy Warhol's ""Campbell's Soup Cans"" and Da Vinci's ""Last Supper"". It is still in print. Parrish referred to ""Daybreak"" as his ""great painting"", the epitome of his work. Measuring , the painting employs a formal layout similar to a stage set, with two"
"Annibale Berlingieri Annibale Berlingieri is an Italian heir and art collector, best known for his 2008 sale of Andy Warhol's painting ""Eight Elvises"" for $100 million. He first commissioned a work of art in 1970, when he had Christo wrap an old carriage at his country villa at Taranto in jute bags. For 40 years, he was the owner of ""Eight Elvises"" a 1963 silkscreen painting of Elvis Presley by the American pop artist Andy Warhol, until its sale for $100 million ($111.2 million with fees) in October 2008 to an unknown buyer, a world record for Warhol. Despite several"
"Big Painting No. 6 Big Painting No. 6 (sometimes Big Painting or Big Painting VI) is a 1965 oil and Magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Measuring 235 cm × 330 cm (92.5 in × 129 in), it is part of the ""Brushstrokes"" series of artworks that includes several paintings and sculptures whose subject is the actions made with a house-painter's brush. It set a record auction price for a painting by a living American artist when it sold for $75,000 in 1970. The painting is in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection. As with all of his ""Brushstrokes"" works, it"
"comment, suppositions can be made. The first is that Picasso did not want people to know who the boy is, and the second is Picasso did not really know the boy. However, many reports have been made that say the boy is “p’tit Louis”, or ""Little Louis"". The painting was first bought by John Hay Whitney in 1950 for US$30,000. On May 5, 2004 the painting was sold for US$104,168,000 at Sotheby's auction in New York City. Sotheby’s did not name the buyer though sources say that it was Guido Barilla, co-owner of the Barilla Group. At the time, it"
"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"
"part of the museum's collection. In November 2011, Sotheby's in New York sold the four works; ""PH-351"" (1940) for US$1.2 million, ""1947-Y-No. 2"" (1947) for US$31.4 million, ""1949-A-No. 1"" (1949) for US$61.7 million and ""PH-1033"" (1976) for US$19.6 million. The proceeds from the sales, US$114 million, went to the Clyfford Still Museum ""to support its endowment and collection-related expenses."" In the decade prior to the sale, only 11 of Still's works came up at auction. In December 2011, a visitor to the museum was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to Still's ""1957-J no.2"" oil painting. In 2013, the"
"to Solitude."" In 1904, Bryant's daughter Julia donated the painting to the New York Public Library. In 2005, it was sold at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton for $35 million, a record for a painting by an American artist. The Library was criticized for ""jettisoning part of the city's cultural patrimony,"" but the Library defended its move stating it needed the money for its endowment fund. The painting was on display at the National Gallery of Art between 2005 and 2007. Currently, the painting is held in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. At its"
"the world by surpassing Tomas Sanchez, who previously held the record at $540,000. (Source: Artprice.com™ database) On December 15, 2015, a painting by Josignacio titled ""The key of Success"", dated 2011, was sold for a hammer price of $475,000 USD at Miami Auction Gallery in Miami, FL. On March 10, 2016, a painting by Josignacio titled ""Music is Timeless"", dated 1989, was sold for a hammer price of $3,481,205 USD at McCarthy-Williams Auctions in London. This painting is now the most expensive painting in the world by a living Latin artist (as well as a living Cuban artist). On July"
"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 ."
"living woman artist. In November 2008, Christie's New York sold a 1959 white ""Infinity Net"" painting formerly owned by Donald Judd, ""No. 2"", for US$5.1 million, then a record for a living female artist. In comparison, the highest price for a sculpture from her New York years is £72,500 (US$147,687), fetched by the 1965 wool, pasta, paint and hanger assemblage ""Golden Macaroni Jacket"" at Sotheby's London in October 2007. A 2006 acrylic on fiberglass-reinforced plastic pumpkin earned $264,000, the top price for one of her sculptures, also at Sotheby's in 2007 Her ""Flame of Life - Dedicated to Tu-Fu (Du-Fu)"""
"Bogota, Colombia. In 2013, the painting ""Woman with Flowered Hat"" set another record at $56.1 million as it was purchased by British jeweller Laurence Graff from American investor Ronald O. Perelman. This was topped in 2015 by the sale of ""Nurse"" for 95.4 million dollars at a Christie's auction. In January 2017, ""Masterpiece"" was sold for $165 million. The proceeds of this sale will be used to create a fund for criminal justice reform. Biographical: Works: Other: Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with"
"($41 million) supporting the Museum Kunstpalast, located next to the corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf. In 2014, E.ON decided to sell Jackson Pollock's ""Number 5 (Elegant Lady)"" (1951), a painting the company has owned since 1980, at Christie's auction to keep funding the Museum Kunstpalast. Pollock had swapped it in 1954 with New York gallery owner Martha Jackson for the convertible in which he had a fatal accident two years later. In 1980, Ulrich Hartmann, head of VEBA's corporate board office, pushed for the purchase from art dealer Alfred Schmela. The acquisition was considered the foundation for E.ON's art collection of"
"the most expensive paintings ever sold, and made Warhol only the fifth artist, behind Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to have a painting sold for at least $100 million. The current location of the painting is unknown. Another painting from 1963, ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"", broke the valuation record for a Warhol work set by ""Eight Elvises"" when it sold for $105 million at auction in November 2013. Eight Elvises Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol of Elvis Presley. In 2008 it was sold by Annibale Berlingieri"
"Nu couché Nu couché (also known in English as Red Nude or ""Reclining Nude"") is a 1917 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. It is one of his most widely reproduced and exhibited paintings. The painting realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's New York sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. The purchaser was the Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian.. Liu is believed to have paid for the painting using his American Express card. The painting is one of a famous series of"
"$155 million (ca. $134 million in 2006 dollars). Ignoring inflation, the price was estimated to be the highest ever paid for an artwork by a U.S. collector until Kenneth C. Griffin's ~$300 million purchase of Willem de Kooning's ""Interchange"" in September 2015. Le Rêve (Picasso) Le Rêve (French, ""The Dream"") is a 1932 oil painting (130 × 97 cm) by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932. It belongs to Picasso's period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted"
"The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY includes both Rothko's late painting, ""Untitled"" (1967) and a large mural by Al Held entitled ""Rothko's Canvas"" (1969-70). Art collector Richard Feigen said that he sold a red Rothko painting to the National Gallery of Berlin for $22,000 in 1967. In November 2005, Rothko's 1954 painting ""Homage to Matisse"" broke the record for any postwar painting at a public auction, selling for $22.5 million. In May 2007, Rothko's 1950 painting ""White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)"" broke this record again, selling at Sotheby's in New"
"painting when he purchased Paul Kane's """".At a Sotheby's auction that year, Thomson purchased Peter Paul Rubens' painting ""The Massacre of the Innocents"" for £49.5 million (CAD $117 million). In 1956, Thomson married Nora Marilyn Lavis (July 27,1930 – May 23, 2017), a model. They had three children: David (b. 1957), Lynne, who changed her name to Taylor (b. 1959), and Peter (b. 1965). Taylor, a one-time actress and film producer, became known for her lawsuit against Christie's auction house, when in 1994 she bought urns supposedly from Louis XV of France that were discovered instead to be 19th century"
"to hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen in 2010 for a reported $110 million (then £73 million; €81.7 million). The seller was Jean-Christophe Castelli, son of Leo Castelli, Johns's legendary dealer, who had died in 1999. While the price was not disclosed by the parties, art experts say Cohen paid about $110 million. ""Flags"" are Jasper Johns most famous works. The artist painted his first American flag in 1954–55, a work now at the MoMA. Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop"
"1948, he and his wife decided that he should devote all his energy to his art. They lived almost entirely off Annalee Newman's teaching salary until the late 1950s, when Newman's paintings began to sell consistently. ""Ulysses"" (1952), a blue-and-black striped painting, sold in 1985 for $1,595,000 at Sotheby's to an American collector who was not identified. Consigned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and previously part of Frederick R. Weisman's collection, Newman's 8.5-by-10-foot ""Onement VI"" (1953) was sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's New York in 2013; its sale was ensured by an undisclosed third-party guarantee. This was"