26 WORKS OF ART THAT CELEBRATE LOVE

Love in the age of COVID....

Let's keep our distance, shall we and celebrate love by looking at some artist’s expression of togetherness; lovers, the ($50 million) ring, roses (+ The Rose), a chocolate Marilyn Monroe, kisses (opposite and same sex) and every kind of heart art, including self-shredding kind...

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️

Robert Indiana

Roy Lichtenstein

Annie Liebovitz

David Hockney

Trey Speegle

Vik Muniz

Felix Gonzales-Torres

Christopher Makos

Andy Warhol

Rene Magritte

Gustav Klimt

Constantin Brâncuși

Robert Doisneau

David LaChapelle

Keith Haring & Jean Micel Basquiat

Keith Haring

Damien Hirst

Andy Warhol

Jim Dine

Tracey Emin

Banksy

Girl with Balloon” automatically shredded itself at auction after selling for $1.4 million

INGE PRADER REINTERPRETS GUSTAV KLIMT PAINTINGS IN GORGEOUS PHOTOS

For this year’s Life Ball in Vienna, photographer Inge Prader has stunningly reinterpreted the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Intricately crafted costumes, sets and props, along with carefully posed models bring to (still) life some of Klimt’s most iconic works. Gorgeous warriors and women are posed along with semi-nude figures, set against detailed mosaic backdrops, many in Klimt’s signature gold.

It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, yeah, beautiful’ and keep moving. But look again at the detail. These are not exact recreations, they are reimagined, and they are SPECTACULAR.

Gustav Klimt, "Death and Life", 1910. Above is Prader’s reimagining with the addition of the artist and friend? Assistant? Lover?

(T/Y, Ann; Photos, © Life Ball / Inge Prader; via Design Boom)

OPRAH SELLS HER KLIMT FOR $150 MILLION

Yes, it takes money to make money. Multi-billionaire, Oprah Winfrey just made a nice little profit her selling her Gustav Klimt. Her 1912 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold for $150 million last summer. 

Oprah, who is a noted art collector, originally purchased the painting, one of two portraits the Klimt did of Adele Bloch-Bauer, 10 years ago at Christie’s for $87.9 million. It was sold by the subject’s heirs, after they won a protracted legal battle with the Austrian state museum over five Klimt canvases seized by the Nazis from Bloch-Bauer’s husband during World War II.

The Nazi-looted works were the subject 2015’s Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren as Bloch-Bauer’s niece, and Ryan Reynolds as her lawyer.

In the ten years Winfrey owned the work, its value increased over 70%. It was purchased by an anonymous Chinese collector.

Another major Klimt painting, “Water Serpents II”, sold by Russian billionaire collector Dmitry Rybolovlev in November 2015 for $170 million.

(via Artnet)