"has devolved into yet another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market."" Altmann said of the sale that it was not practical for her, or her relatives who were also part of the estate, to retain any of the paintings. In November 2006 the remaining four Klimt paintings were sold at Christie's auction house. ""Adele Bloch-Bauer II"" sold for $87.9 million, ""Apfelbaum I"" for $33 million, ""Buchenwald"" for $40.3 million and ""Häuser in Unterach am Attersee"" for $31 million. All went to private collections. The history of the ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"" and the other paintings taken from the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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);"
"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"
"sold at auction in 2007 for almost $10 million. Goudstikker was born in Amsterdam, the son of an art dealer, Eduard Goudstikker. He studied at the Commercial School in Amsterdam, and more intensely with Wilhelm Martin and William Vogelsang at Leiden and Utrecht. In 1919 he joined his father's Amsterdam gallery, restructured it as a public limited liability company with himself as the director and major shareholder, and introduced a notably more international style; publishing catalogs in French rather than Dutch, and showing for the first time Italian Renaissance paintings, including ""The Madonna and Child"" by Francesco Squarcione. This was"
"the Saint-Émilion estate Château Belair then renamed Chateau Bélair-Monange. Jean-Pierre Moueix retired in 1978 and died in 2003. In 1991 his son Christian Moueix became president of JP Moueix, while the grandson Edouard Moueix in the company since 2003 is today Deputy General Manager . Prolific art collectors, the Moueix family sold the painting ""Triptych 1976"" by Francis Bacon in April, 2008, originally purchased by Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1977. In an auction at Sotheby's New York the work was purchased for US$ 86.3 million by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, recording the highest price paid for a postwar work of"
"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"
"Portrait of Suzanne Bloch Portrait of Suzanne Bloch is a painting executed by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in Paris in 1904, towards the end of his blue period. The subject, Suzanne Bloch, was a singer known for her Wagner interpretations, and the sister of the violinist Henri Bloch. A luminary in the Parisian sets frequented by Picasso at the beginning of the 20th century, Suzanne Bloch was a Wagnerian singer and the sister of the violinist Henri Bloch. She was introduced to the Spanish artist by the French poet Max Jacob, in 1904, and she sat for a portrait"
"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"
"original. The adaptation is based on images of hands by Leonardo that are thought to have been executed as studies for this painting. For an unorthodox view on Ginevra de' Benci see: 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"
"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"
"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"
"of Lucretia"" to Isabella Stewart Gardner, and also the sale of Rembrandt's """". Colnaghi assisted Wilhelm von Bode to negotiate for the acquisition of the Hope Collection (gathered by banker Thomas Hope and inherited by Francis Hope, later 8th Duke of Newcastle) for the Berlin State Museums. Colnaghi sold Holbein's """" to the National Gallery in for a record price of £61,000, acquired from the collection of the Duke of Norfolk. Deprez retired in 1907, and William McKay in 1911. The firm merged with Obach & Co in 1911—Gutekunst having married Charles Obach's daughter Lena in 1882—and Gustavus Mayer, formerly"
"7, 1881, it was bought by the art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, for 1,500 francs. The painting was presented for the first time to the public at the 7th Impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1882. In 1883 it was known to be in the collection of Charles Ephrussi, an art collector and a publisher, but in 1892 the painting was returned again to the collection of the Durand-Ruel family. In 1925, the painting was sold to Annie Swan Coburn from Chicago for $100,000. After her death in 1932 the painting was bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, where it"
"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"
"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"
"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 ."
"the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Two paintings by Bate Tichenor were auctioned by Christie's in July, 2007 at New York's Rockefeller Plaza, and both received almost 10 times the original estimates in the auction of Mexican actress María Félix's estate. Bate Tichenor's oil on canvas titled ""Domadora de quimeras"", featuring the face of María Félix with details by painter Antoine Tzapoff, went for $20,400 USD, which was several times higher than its original low estimate of $2000 USD. Another painting by Bate Tichenor, ""Caja de crystal"", also sold for much more than its estimated price. In"
"Federal Bureau of Investigation made Bloch aware that it was investigating the painting, and in 2007, they told Bloch that the painting had in fact been reported stolen from Clark. Under an October 2008 deed of gift, Clark agreed to donate the pastel, valued at $10 million, to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, of which Bloch was a major benefactor. After making the gift, Clark made a request that the pastel be lent three times in 25 years to the Corcoran Museum of Art, that it be listed as from an anonymous donor, and that Clark"
"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,"
"for artists, writers, musicians, homosexuals and bohemians. At its height, regular patrons included Lucian Freud, Jeffrey Bernard, John Deakin and Henrietta Moraes. Both Belcher and Bacon shared a sharp, dry and often and caustic wit, which bordered on sarcastic and aloof disdain. They cultivated an at times intimidating atmosphere, and she became the subject of several of his paintings, including ""Seated Woman (Portrait of Muriel Belcher)"", which in sold 2007 for €13.7 million. Bacon did not paint from life sittings, and it is likely that he painted this triptych from photographs taken by Deakin. Each of the panels are set"
"his art (the exhibition was a joint venture with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art). The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds his papers. In December 1999, ""Polo Crowd"", a 1910 painting, sold for U.S.$27.5 million to billionaire Bill Gates. In November 2008, Bellows' ""Men of the Docks"", a 1912 painting of the Brooklyn docks spanning the East River and depicting the Manhattan skyline in the background, was to be auctioned at Christie's in New York. It was expected to set the record for an American painting sold at auction with an estimate of $25–35 million. The"
"Carpet. Duveen had always kept a stock of grand French furniture and tapestries in stock. Duveen's portrait was painted by many artists, but his best painter-friend was the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), who painted him three times, in 1923, 1929 and 1938. The 1923 portrait was reproduced on the cover of Meryle Secrest's 2004 biography, and later sold at TEFAF Maastricht in 2006 for $95,000. Müller-Ury also painted a full-length standing portrait of his daughter Dorothy as a girl in 1914, and in 1924, at the time of her engagement, a bust-length portrait, which was exhibited the following"
"de Luxe. Her grandest work is the ""Seven Princesses"", three wall-sized gesso panels showing a scene from a play by the same name, by Maurice Maeterlinck. This work was extremely popular in Vienna and its surrounding art scene. When the Waerndorfer villa was sold in 1916, it disappeared from public view for a long time. In 1990, it was rediscovered in a crate in the basement of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and is now on permanent display in the MAK. In 2008 her 1902 work ""The Red Rose and the White Rose"" was auctioned for 1.7 million"
"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"