![]() And a Gustav Klimt 1903 painting, "Birch Forest," set the high mark for a Klimt work, selling for $104.6 million. It fetched $149.2 million including fees, a record for a Seurat piece.Ĭezanne's "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire", a colorful landscape painted from 1888-1890, sold for $137.8 million, another record. Football or soccer, as many of us call it is the most widely played sport in South Africa, with its traditional support base in the black community. Several of the winning bids smashed previous records for individual artists and many exceeded the expected sales prices estimated by Christie's.Īmong the priciest works sold was Pointillist pioneer Georges Seurat's Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version), an 1888 oil on canvas depicting three nude women. It was all white, quiet, dreaming dreams of heavenly splendor. ![]() Proceeds will be donated to philanthropic causes in accordance with the wishes of Allen, who died in 2018. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War. ![]() The total represented the highest amount ever collected at a single art auction, according to the auction house, Christie's in New York. Nov 9 (Reuters) - Five dozen works from Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh and other revered artists brought in $1.5 billion on Wednesday at an auction of part of the vast collection of paintings and sculpture amassed by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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