Tag: Gustav Klimt
Crises and wars dampen the art markets
During Classic Week at Christie’s in London The sophisticated composition of a painter’s studio by Michael Sweerts was previously only known from copies. Christie’s auctioned off the rarity for a…
Opportunities for rich and somewhat thrifty collectors
new York The motif should be known to almost everyone, it adorns countless posters in student shacks. René Magritte’s “L’Empire des Lumières” from 1951, painted in seventeen variants, is one…
Become Snoop Dogg’s neighbor
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. In the early 2000s, a man named Dennis Hope made a name for himself when he seriously claimed…