A história dos devolvidos klimts, terminou (até ver) ontem à noite com a venda dos quatro famosos quadros, entre outros, a leilão na Christie's. A noite rendeu $491 milhões, um máximo absoluto para a casa -- o anterior nível mais elevado de receita tinha sido atingido em Maio de 1990 com $269 milhões.Vem tudo hoje no New York Times.
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"When “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II,” a 1912 portrait of Mrs. Bloch-Bauer in fashionable street clothes and a wide-brimmed hat, came up for sale, four telephone bidders tenaciously went for the painting, which was expected to sell for $40 million to $60 million. Mr. Burge carefully proceeded in $500,000 increments. When the price rose to $74 million and the competition was down to two bidders, Guy Bennett, head of Christie’s Impressionist and modern art department in New York, dramatically raised his hand and began bidding aggressively for an anonymous client on the telephone. Mr. Bennett’s buyer won, paying $87.9 million, a record for the artist. The salesroom burst into applause.
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The three other Klimts, all landscapes, also brought strong prices. Five bidders went for “Birch Forest” (1903), one of the artist’s few woodland scenes, depicting an autumn scene of fallen leaves. Another telephone bidder finally paid $40.3 million, well above its high estimate of $30 million. “Houses at Unterach on the Attersee” (1916), a view of a resort town in the Austrian countryside that was estimated at $18 million to $25 million, sold for $31 million to an unidentified couple sitting in the front of the salesroom. Another telephone duel was waged for “Apple Tree I” (1912), a richly colored canvas that sold for $33 million, far above its estimate of $15 million to $25 million.
(Final prices include Christie’s commission: 20 percent of the first $100,000 and 12 percent of the rest. Estimates do not reflect the commissions.)"
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