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Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece, a portrait of Vienna aristocrat Adele Bloch-Bauer, was sold to cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder (the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune) for $135 million the highest known price ever paid for a painting.
Purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan Klimt’s portrait deposed Picasso’s 1905 “Boy With a Pipe” sold two years ago,in an auction at Sotheby’s for $104 million.
“It is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition,” said Lauder, the founder of the Neue Galerie, a tiny Manhattan museum devoted entirely to German and Austrian art.
Klimt, an Austrian Symbolist painter, is known as one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement.
His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects. He’s primary subject is the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.
Art Nouveau - “An international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s. The name derives from the Maison de l’Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery opened in Paris in 1896, but in fact the movement had different names throughout Europe. In Germany it was known as ‘Jugendstil’, from the magazine Diejugend (Youth) published from 1896; in Italy ‘Stile Liberty’ (after the London store, Liberty Style) or ‘Floreale’; in Spain ‘Modernista’, in Austria ‘Sezessionstil’ and, paradoxically, in France the English term ‘Modern Style’ was often used, emphasizing the English origins of the movement.
Wheew pinagpawisan ako sa presyo ah…
June 20th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Awesome works of art on this site ..I LOVE IT
June 20th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Grabe, may bago na ulit? Kakadalaw ko lang eh. Link kita Kuya, ha
June 20th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
sinasabi ko na sa iyo ipinta mo na ang sirena
na lumilipad! darating ang araw baka milyones din ang ibabayad ng apo ko sa talampakan, in euro pa! heheheh
di ko siya type, mukhang lalaki! sigurad ang nagpamahal lang naman ng presyo nyan eh ‘yong history niya!
kay Monet pa rin ako
June 20th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Visual artists never stop to astound me. Galing!
June 21st, 2006 at 6:30 am
di ko pa din maintindihan kung bkt ganun kamahal yan hehehe…basta alam ko cute si kneeko hehehe
June 21st, 2006 at 9:48 am
phew!ikaw ang pinagpawisan,ako natuyuan ng pawis sa presyo! haha!
pero,its worth it namn yata
June 21st, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Pre, pag ako ang ginawa mong masterpiece, wearing this…wearing only this… sigurado!!!
Sigurado ni piso di tayo mababayaran! Baka gawing pantapal sa butas ng bubong ang painting ko.
Sayang. Gusto ko pa naman sanang makita ang painting ko, wearing this nga. wearing only this!
Whahahaha!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:44 pm
great pieces of art here. pero grabe kamahal naman nyan. it costs more than a house. haha.
thanks for visiting my blog & for the greeting narin =)
June 21st, 2006 at 6:50 pm
sabi nla ang mga artist at mga taong nkakaappreciate ng art ay mga “deep” daw.. totoo b yun??? hahaha…
ako pwde m bang ipaint??? pero hndi nude ah kc wala namang ipapakita haha…
June 21st, 2006 at 10:03 pm
ive read about this in MSN. na iintrigas ako sa painting na yan..
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 am
kala ko painting mo uli…kamahal ng painting na to ah! dami na makakakain dun….
what’s with the painting? bkit ang mahal?
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:45 am
Ganon ba tlga kamahal yan, eh di nman kaw megawa nyan, bkit mahal? cguru mas mahal kung gawa mona Ama ang naka display jan! heheh!! mukha nman bading ung model eh! bwahah!! sori po! kanya kanyang opinyon nman yan, nambubuska lang ako…
Ama pag gusto mo ng modelo tawagan molang ako, tatago ko muna ang kulay green kong balat at ang aking makinang na pakpak, para makapag concentrate ka!!
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:28 am
ang mahal pala ngmga paintings na ganyan.. kaya ano pa hinihintay mo, gawa ka marami, malay mo balang araw maging ganyan na presyo ng mga gawa mo
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:59 am
The painting’s history resonates deeply in Los Angeles, which from the 1920s to the 1950s became a haven for Jewish Austrian intellectuals including architects Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra and composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Klimt, who lived from 1862 to 1918, is a key figure in European painting because his works were among the first heralds of modernism in art. His subject in the portraits, Bloch-Bauer, was married to sugar baron Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer.
Adele, a rumored lover of the artist, owned the works until her death in 1925. She had asked her husband to donate the works to Austria’s national museum. In their successful campaign to win the canvases back, the heirs argued that he was never bound to so. The paintings were seized by the Nazis in 1939. The childless Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer died in Switzerland in 1945, with niece Maria Altmann among his heirs.
@eden, thanks po. hope you will visit my site always.
@jane, hindi bago to.. hiram lang hehe.. okies
@darena, sige hiramin mo pakpak ni tutubi ikabit mo sa likod mo kung makalipad ka hehe.
after 100years mahal na sigurado un hehe..
tama ka dyan history and preservation.
sige kay monet ka na..
@jhay, thanks.. try mo rin.
@leizel, nyeeee..
@ghee, saang pawis? yup ang history.
@pipay, what a piece? hahahaha… what is that?
hahahaha… ayaw ko na magsalita.
@laureen, not just a house.. bilyonaryo na yan pag sa pinas hehe
you’re welcome… anytime
@yen, anong deep? “deepirensiya”? hahaha tama ka dyan.
ganun ba? sige pede na natin simulan kuko lang muna
@eric, ah ok. medyo controversial nga yan.
@lojika, wait lang mga 5mins… may natapos na ulit akong painting di pa na-upload.
honga sobrang mahal. sabi ko na nga kay neng history and preservation. tsaka pakibasa na rin sa taas.
@naktubi, hahahha… ang tindi talaga ng anaktubi na to… sipsip sa ama hahaha.
honga mahaba ang baba ng babae. hehehe
ano kamo? anong modelo? huh! di ko mabasa eh hehheheh
@cruise, sobrang mahal nga eh… sinisimulan ko na ngang gumawa.. baka after 200 years madiskubre rin ako hehehe…
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 am
you will have one more priceless soon!wish you luck!!!;)
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 am
anong pakpak? eh si darna ako noh!
na naging serena muna
di lang sa history, diskarte rin yan
ng pamilya Lauder para gumanda image
ng co. nila! ‘lam mo na, para tumaas
presyo ng mga egglogs, heheheh!
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:21 am
akala ko po ikaw yung nagpinta niyan hehe
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 am
Kala ko rin gawa mo na yan…
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:31 pm
…hirap mo na ma-reach
ang rich mo na eh, ^_^ sori di ko pa rin naintindihan yung ipinaliwanag mo about sa painting hehe..o baka kase nahilo lang ako sa presyo 
..keep dreamin’ kaya mo yan, galing mo nga eh *wink*
..p.s.
..hehe ayan serious dating ko ha, di bagay?
…enjoy weekend!
cheers,
-kathy-
June 24th, 2006 at 4:25 am
@ev, hope… tnx
@darena, sige na nga darna ka na.
baka nga… marketing strategy ni Mr. Lauder
@elle, nagulat ka sa presyo ano!
@ann,
gagawa rin ako pero di ganyan..
@kathy, naman… behave ah hahahaha…
thanks…
July 4th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
maganda sya…pero magkano nanaman yan? hehe.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 am
Maria Sansone…
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….