Oprah sells painting for $196 million [Greedy 1%er]

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[SoFloFreeper]

....., according to Bloomberg, she sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for $196 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer....

....Oprah purchased the painting at a Christie’s auction in 2006 for $115 million....

[ETL]

Looks like something a semi-talented 6th grader could do.

The piece is called “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” and is from 1912. The subject was the wife of a prominent Jewish industrialist and art patron in Vienna.   

[nickedknack]

Ow, ow, ow...Brain Bleach!

[New Jersey Realist]

Crap, I buy artwork I can’t even give it away.

[connyankee]

Hmmm.. wonder whose campaign nest she’s looking to feather.....

[norwaypinesavage]

You know they are getting desperate when they start selling the artwork.

[Salamander]

Nope.

IMO, Klimt is over-rated.
Looks like modern collage/scrap-booking/multimedia crap, to me.

John Collier and Alphonse Mucha could paint circles around him, blind folded, with their hands tied behind their back.

[xp38]

At least it’s partly representational and not completely full blown abtract modern art. Beyond that the value is in the eye of the beholder. If I had the money it wouldn’t be something I would hang in my home.

[Salamander]

It's this fugly thing

[Salamander]

Glad someone agrees with me.

It’s like liberals ruminating over “modern art”, each one trying to appear enlightened, when it reality, it’s hideous art but they’re all too afraid to say so, lest they seem “uncultured”.

Crap is crap, no matter how much it costs.

[FrdmLvr]

Her school for girls in Africa. Is that still in business or was it closed amid scandal some years ago?

[Salamander]

It looks like somebody’s weird, Freudian fever dream.

:D

[ETL]

At least it’s partly representational and not completely full blown abstract modern art.

True, but even totally abstract art can be beautiful, simply in its shapes, colors and textures. Abstract art varies enormously. Some of it, IMO, is complete garbage, as in that somewhat famous painting of a red dot on a simple yellow background.

[xp38]

A well done black velvet Elvis would beat it eh?

[ETL]

A couple examples of junk abstract art, IMO, and most normal people's I would think...

[FrdmLvr]

Yes and yes. I was always fond of Mucha. Klimt, not so much. I would have loved to have lived in Vienna in that era.

[Gaffer]

In the movie it had real gold leaf applied for the coat and dress.

[xp38]

I looked up highest art sales. This one by Pollack has the record it seems for abstract at $200 million. Jack the dripper strikes again!

[xp38]

oops that should be Pollock

[Maverick68]

There’s a reason I never refer to myself as an “artist” even tho’ I draw, paint, sculpt and create music...The word is so dumbed-down and hijacked by talentless jagoffz I refuse to be lumped with them.

[Salamander]

Even a black velvet bullfighter.

:D