A chart By Gustav Klimt ‘Insel im Attersee’ (The Island in Attersee) from 1902 Sold for $53.2 million on Tuesday After a seven-minute bid between three buyers in the first big sale of the season at Sotheby’s in New York. The painting is one of the rare landscapes made by the Austrian painter, who tries to capture the nuances of the sun on the water and the colorful reflections it creates with a technique reminiscent of pointillism with the mastery of green.
Klimt “beaten” what started as a favorite at Sotheby’s that night, one of the Belgian surrealist’s most evocative works, ‘L’empire des lumières’ (Empire of Light, 1951). René Magritte and it was sold for 42.3 millionwhen the initial fork increases that to 55 million.
Among the more than 20 million works this afternoon is a Rubens (‘Portrait of a man like Mars’, which sold for 26.2 million); a Picasso (“Reclining Nude Woman Playing With A Cat”, for 21.2 million), a Van Gogh (“The Garden in Front of Mas Debray”, for 23.2 million) and Alberto Giacometti’s “Femme Leoni” sculpture were sold. for 28.48 million. All these works, except Klimt’s, they are below their respective maximum forks This, which Sotheby’s presented to them at the big spring auction, could lead to an analysis tomorrow. the so-called fatigue of the art market.
One of the jewels of Sotheby’s spring collection is scheduled for tomorrow, but this is not an artistic object, but an ancient book: the Hebrew Bible, known as the Sassoon Codex, written around 900 and one of the most complete and best. It has been preserved from the Bible written in Hebrew. The starting range is between $30 and $50 million.