Exquisite May 2017
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Artauction<br />
Strong Art<br />
Performance<br />
“Innovative in its composition and jewel-like in its<br />
exquisite blaze of colours, it is one of the artist’s<br />
greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction.”<br />
– Helena Newman, global co-head of Sotheby’s<br />
Impressionist & Modern Art Department, and chairman<br />
of Sotheby’s Europe, on Gustave Klimt’s Bauerngarten.<br />
GUSTAV KLIMT’S<br />
BAUERNGARTEN soars<br />
at Sotheby’s auction in<br />
London that sees other<br />
great works by Picasso,<br />
Modigliani and Gauguin<br />
Femme assise dans un fauteuil sur fond blanc<br />
Oil on board, 100.5 x 81cm<br />
Painted on 25 March 1953<br />
Estimate: US$7,985,900-11,671,700<br />
Sold: US$14,846,095<br />
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)<br />
Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)<br />
Oil on canvas, 110 x 110cm<br />
Painted in 1907<br />
Estimate: upon request<br />
Sold: US$59,300,000<br />
Femme nue assise<br />
Oil on canvas, 116 x 89cm<br />
Painted in January 1965<br />
Estimate: US$11,671,700-15,357,500<br />
Sold: US$16,781,140<br />
76 | EXQUISITE<br />
EXQUISITE | 77
Change language