Art from the private collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen fetched over $1.5 billion on Wednesday to become the largest single-owner sale in auction history
and Lucian Freud were also among the record-breakers, while paintings by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock are among dozens more still to go under the hammer on Thursday evening.
Only five of the painter's views of Sainte-Victoire are left in private hands, Carter added."Each one is from a slightly different vantage point. Most of them are slightly further back," he told CNN in an interview prior to Wednesday's sale."It's also rare that it's... not obscured by any trees in front of the mountain."Christie's
The two other artworks to attract nine-figure bids were Gauguin's"Maternité II," which fetched $105.7 million, and Klimt's "Birch Forest," a large-scale landscape that sold for over $104.5 million.Showing a dappled wood scene on the outskirts of Vienna, and painted in Klimt's romantic Art Nouveau style, the latter artwork is"almost like a fairy tale," Carter said.
The exhibition"Seeing Nature," based on his collection, toured the US in 2016 and 2017 with stops at the Seattle Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, among others. Allen died in 2018 from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 65." was collecting all the way up until the year that he passed away," Johanna Flaum, a vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art at Christie's, told CNN ahead of the sale.
" has largely been regarded, since the time it was painted, as being Freud's very best painting," Flaum said."The painting includes a compilation of those that were the closest to Freud: a current lover, ex-lover, children," she explained."His world is encapsulated in the figures, so it's quite personal."
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