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...times have changed. Now it's a spectacularly rich man's sport, as evidenced by the bidding frenzy that took place last week at Christie's in New York City, where $491 million worth of Impressionist and modern art changed hands--the priciest art auction in history. Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold for $87.9 million, obliterating the presale estimate of $40 million to $60 million. Three other Klimts--part of a collection stolen by the Nazis during World War II and recently returned to the owner's heirs--fetched a combined $104 million. An anonymous...
...million Amount paid by cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder for Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I?the highest price ever paid for a painting $104 million Price paid in 2004 for Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe, the previous record holder
...record-breaking sale of a Rembranbt for $2.3 million caused a stir in 1961, but adjusted for inflation, that's only $15.6 million today. Only? Makeup mogul Ronald Lauder last week paid $135 mil for this glittering Klimt, setting a new all-time high for a painting. Here's a gallery of other works that have held the title...
...MILLION Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer...
...Sledgehammer,” represents yet another good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well-known for selecting unheard-of directors, Ben Gibbard and company have struck gold with Norton, who manages to channel Nick Park (“Wallace & Gromit”) and Gustav Klimt at once. The result is both joyous and fragile, a montage of imagery and styles that suggest that everyone had some fun making the video. Striking me rather like what Paul Klee might have created, had he been commissioned to make a music video, the imagery is at once bright...