Stolen Klimt Landscape Fetches $40.4 Million At Sotheby's New York Sale

Via Bloomberg.com -

11/02/2011

"A Gustav Klimt landscape stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner and recently returned to the woman's grandson sold for $40.4 million at Sotheby's today.

The top lot in the auction house's Impressionist and modern art evening sale, it went to a Zurich dealer named David Lachenmann after protracted bidding that boiled down to him and someone on the phone."

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Neue Galerie Event

Reading and Book Signing

Thursday, November 17 | 5 to 6 p.m.

Historian Tim Bonyhady an award-winning art historian, curator, and lawyer. His book, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900, tells the story of his family's experiences in Vienna in the early twentieth century. Bonyhady will read from his book and autograph copies for members.

Not since the publication of Carl Schorske’s Fin-De-Siècle Vienna has a book so brilliantly given us a close-up portrait of turn-of-the-century Vienna, as seen through the lives of an eminent family, the Gallias, among the city’s great patrons of the early twentieth century: their upper-class life; their rarefied collections of art and design; their religious life; and their daring flight from the Nazi Anschluss. Tim Bonyhady, great-grandson of the Gallias, tells the story of the family’s middle-class prosperity from the provinces of Central Europe where they grew up to their arrival in Vienna, following the emperor’s proclamation that Jews had freedom of movement and residence, and shows how for the next two decades, the Vienna that became theirs was at the center of art, music, and ideas in all of Europe.

About the author:

Tim Bonyhady is an award-winning art historian, curator, and environmental lawyer. He is the director of the Centre of Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Advance praise for GOOD LIVING STREET:

“Bonyhady has delved deeply into his forebears’ concert books, travel logs, letters, and death certificates in an effort to reconstruct his family’s identity and, for his mother, to place ‘a value on her life that she did not.’ The result is a lucid, poignant generational tale of loss of material wealth and cultural identity that provides new perspective and insight into both Holocaust and immigration studies.” —Booklist

Political, economic and art history effectively combine with memoir to create a compelling story. —Kirkus Reviews

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Klimt in the News

Klimt-Inspired Barbie Doll
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A Gustav Klimt landscape stolen by the Nazis and recently restituted to the heirs of its Austrian owner is expected to sell for more than $25 million at auction this Autumn, Sotheby’s reported. Klimt’s “Litzberg on the Attersee” is being sold by Georges Jorisch, a great-nephew of Austrian iron magnate Viktor Zuckerkandl.
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"Three rooms into the National Gallery of Victoria's Vienna: Art & Design exhibition, past its densely detailed drawings and paintings, its elegant furniture and blueprints for a radical fin de siecle city, there is a set of small, black and white photographs and, nearby, a display of flat, buckle-sized jewels..."

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Mada Primavesi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue NYC, from its vast collection, has chosen GUSTAV KLIMT’s painting of the bold and magnificent MADA PRIMAVESI for its Membership brochure, showing an enlarged portion, plus the entire full length image on the inside. This painting as well as the one of SERENA PULITZER LEDERER can be found in the museum’s Hall of European Art.

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Maria Altmann, who won return of looted art, dies

Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94.

Full story at the Wall Street Journal here

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Klimt at the Neue Galerie

Happy 2011 from the Klimt Collection! Here's wishing you the best this year!

And what better way to start the new year than with a visit to New York City's Neue Galerie?

In addition to the Klimt works already on view in their permanent collection, the Neue Galerie will be featuring additional pieces by Klimt and other noted turn-of-the-century artists of Vienna in an upcoming exhibition this February.

Details on "Birth of the Modern: Style and Identity in Vienna 1900" can be viewed here

Please take a moment to view our website here at Klimts.com, where we offer the most beautiful Klimt family-authorized reproduction paintings available anywhere!