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2008.03.02 03:24 pm
買主 烏克蘭女大亨、慈善家艾蓮娜
英國倫敦西南部肯辛頓一幢維多利亞風的五層透天厝最近易手，據說創下8000萬英鎊（約台幣49億1870萬元）天價，成為全球最貴住宅。買家相信是烏克蘭女大亨艾蓮娜‧法蘭丘克，她是烏克蘭前總統之女，也是烏克蘭出名的慈善家。
艾蓮娜一出手，立刻超越印度鋼鐵大王米塔爾以6700萬英鎊在肯辛頓宮花園置產的紀錄。不過她坐擁全球最貴房屋的紀錄恐怕保不了多久，預料數周內就會被打破。房地產商表示，貝爾格雷夫廣場一棟六層樓的豪宅即將推出巿場，定價9000萬英鎊（約台幣55億3350萬元）。
有地下泳池、三溫暖、戲院
艾蓮娜是企業家平丘克的妻子，她的大手筆顯示，儘管全球信貸風暴狂吹，高級房地產巿場似乎不受影響。但雖然花了大錢，她卻無法馬上入住，因為整修裝潢工程要到下個月才能完工。
這棟維多利亞式別墅坐落於上菲利莫爾園17號，原先是一所女子寄宿學校，1997年被一名華人買下，2006年以2000萬英鎊脫手給一家專營高級房地產的仲介公司。仲介商花了1000萬英鎊裝修，加建地下泳池、健身房、三溫暖和戲院。別墅中至少有10間臥室，並有類似電影「戰慄空間」的緊急避難室。整修工程耗時一年半，工程車整天進出，加上噪音震天，讓鄰居十分受不了。
外界對新屋主所知不多，英國媒體僅報導她是歌手艾爾頓強的朋友，2003年創辦了烏克蘭第一個慈善基金會，致力對抗愛滋病，在烏克蘭素有善名。
2008年3月2日 星期日
2008年2月27日 星期三
Sale of the century: UK gets art collection for 80% off
· Donation could fill floor and a half of Tate Modern
· Bequest ranks among those by Samuel Courtauld and Henry Tate
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Wednesday February 27, 2008
guardian.co.uk
An act of artistic philanthropy on a par with Britain's greatest - including bequests by Samuel Courtauld and Henry Tate - was unveiled today in a move that will see 725 works of postwar and contemporary art donated to the nation.
The London dealer Anthony d'Offay is giving over almost his entire collection - now conservatively valued at £125m - for the price he paid originally. The collection contains some of the finest works by the most important artists of the last 50 years, including Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. It will be called Artist Rooms and it will be jointly owned and managed for the nation by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate.
The scale of the donation is remarkable: enough art to easily fill a floor and a half of London's Tate Modern. Artist Rooms will take the form of 50 rooms of contemporary art by 25 artists, with the intention that they will be seen across the UK and not just in London and Edinburgh. The first partners will include galleries as far apart as Inverness, Bexhill and Cardiff.
D'Offay is offering the art at the original price paid rather than its current value. That amounts to almost £28m with £10m each being paid by the British government and the Scottish government. The remaining £8m will come from the Art Fund (£1m) and National Heritage Memorial Fund (£7m).
"He is making a loss," said the Tate's director Nicholas Serota. "It is one of the most generous gifts that has ever been made to museums in this country. Anthony's concept has always been to try and show artists in depth. That's how he has collected and that's how he would like this gift to be seen. A gift of this magnitude will completely transform the opportunity to experience contemporary art in the UK."
D'Offay told the Guardian the idea of Artist Rooms had been seven years in the planning. "It's really to do with education for young people. Outside London and Edinburgh it is very difficult to see great contemporary art. I was born in Sheffield and brought up in Leicester and I was very conscious that what I could see in museums was 18th-century portraits, Egyptian mummies and stuffed animals.
"Art is important because it stimulates young people's creativity. If you see great art it makes you ask questions and if you ask questions it makes you seek answers. It's always been in my mind that this is something I wanted to do."
D'Offay was originally in talks with Scotland's galleries and the Tate became involved because of the sheer scale.
Much of the art will plug significant gaps in Britain's national collections. Three rooms will comprise 69 black-and-white photographs by the pioneering Diane Arbus who, despite her reputation as one of the greatest American photographers, is not represented at either Tate or the National Galleries of Scotland.
It is a similar story for other artists. Tate holds just one work by Jeff Koons and the NGS none. Now D'Offay is giving over 17 Koons works including Winter Bears, 1988. Robert Mapplethorpe, the boundary-pushing American photographer is not represented at all, but now three rooms will be filled with 64 photographs, probably the best collection in the world after the Guggenheim's.
D'Offay is also donating a breathtaking collection of 136 works by Joseph Beuys, including 20 sculptures; nine works by Gilbert and George including one of their earliest together, George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit from 1970; five Damien Hirsts including his largest early spot painting and a sheep in formaldehyde; six important works filling three rooms by German artist Anselm Kiefer; 14 works which at a stroke vastly improve the collection of Gerhard Richter; and 22 works by American Ed Ruscha. The list goes on.
Both the galleries and d'Offay hope it will set a precedent and act as an example for others with the wherewithal to follow.
John Leighton, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "Our postwar and contemporary art collections are weak - at a stroke it becomes one of international significance."
The touring nature of the scheme is central and 11 regional galleries - Aberdeen, Bexhill, Colchester, Glasgow, Inverness, Middlesbrough, Cardiff, Walsall, Orkney, Belfast, Wolverhampton - have already signed up to host rooms. Nor is it a finished project. "This isn't something that is locked, finished, complete," said Serota. "We would hope to buy one or two more rooms a year."
Serota said the donation was up there with the great bequests which led to the establishment of the Tate, by Henry Tate at the end of the 19th century, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, by Samuel Courtauld in the 1930s and 1940s.
"It is an extraordinary act of philanthropy and I don't know the equivalent of it anywhere else in the world. It will be a legacy for future generations," he added.
It is hoped the public will get to see the first rooms in spring 2009.
Andy Warhol, Skulls (1976)
Winter Bears (1988) by Jeff Koons
Gilbert & George, Existers (1984)
Ron Mueck, Spooning Couple (2005)
Wall Drawing #1136 (2004) by Sol Le Witt
Self-Portrait (1983) by Robert Mapplethorpe
Bruce Nauman, La Brea/Art Tips/Rat Spit/Tar Pits (1972)
Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock (1995)
Richard Hamilton, Four Self-portraits (1990)
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Blid (1994)
· Bequest ranks among those by Samuel Courtauld and Henry Tate
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Wednesday February 27, 2008
guardian.co.uk
An act of artistic philanthropy on a par with Britain's greatest - including bequests by Samuel Courtauld and Henry Tate - was unveiled today in a move that will see 725 works of postwar and contemporary art donated to the nation.
The London dealer Anthony d'Offay is giving over almost his entire collection - now conservatively valued at £125m - for the price he paid originally. The collection contains some of the finest works by the most important artists of the last 50 years, including Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. It will be called Artist Rooms and it will be jointly owned and managed for the nation by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate.
The scale of the donation is remarkable: enough art to easily fill a floor and a half of London's Tate Modern. Artist Rooms will take the form of 50 rooms of contemporary art by 25 artists, with the intention that they will be seen across the UK and not just in London and Edinburgh. The first partners will include galleries as far apart as Inverness, Bexhill and Cardiff.
D'Offay is offering the art at the original price paid rather than its current value. That amounts to almost £28m with £10m each being paid by the British government and the Scottish government. The remaining £8m will come from the Art Fund (£1m) and National Heritage Memorial Fund (£7m).
"He is making a loss," said the Tate's director Nicholas Serota. "It is one of the most generous gifts that has ever been made to museums in this country. Anthony's concept has always been to try and show artists in depth. That's how he has collected and that's how he would like this gift to be seen. A gift of this magnitude will completely transform the opportunity to experience contemporary art in the UK."
D'Offay told the Guardian the idea of Artist Rooms had been seven years in the planning. "It's really to do with education for young people. Outside London and Edinburgh it is very difficult to see great contemporary art. I was born in Sheffield and brought up in Leicester and I was very conscious that what I could see in museums was 18th-century portraits, Egyptian mummies and stuffed animals.
"Art is important because it stimulates young people's creativity. If you see great art it makes you ask questions and if you ask questions it makes you seek answers. It's always been in my mind that this is something I wanted to do."
D'Offay was originally in talks with Scotland's galleries and the Tate became involved because of the sheer scale.
Much of the art will plug significant gaps in Britain's national collections. Three rooms will comprise 69 black-and-white photographs by the pioneering Diane Arbus who, despite her reputation as one of the greatest American photographers, is not represented at either Tate or the National Galleries of Scotland.
It is a similar story for other artists. Tate holds just one work by Jeff Koons and the NGS none. Now D'Offay is giving over 17 Koons works including Winter Bears, 1988. Robert Mapplethorpe, the boundary-pushing American photographer is not represented at all, but now three rooms will be filled with 64 photographs, probably the best collection in the world after the Guggenheim's.
D'Offay is also donating a breathtaking collection of 136 works by Joseph Beuys, including 20 sculptures; nine works by Gilbert and George including one of their earliest together, George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit from 1970; five Damien Hirsts including his largest early spot painting and a sheep in formaldehyde; six important works filling three rooms by German artist Anselm Kiefer; 14 works which at a stroke vastly improve the collection of Gerhard Richter; and 22 works by American Ed Ruscha. The list goes on.
Both the galleries and d'Offay hope it will set a precedent and act as an example for others with the wherewithal to follow.
John Leighton, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "Our postwar and contemporary art collections are weak - at a stroke it becomes one of international significance."
The touring nature of the scheme is central and 11 regional galleries - Aberdeen, Bexhill, Colchester, Glasgow, Inverness, Middlesbrough, Cardiff, Walsall, Orkney, Belfast, Wolverhampton - have already signed up to host rooms. Nor is it a finished project. "This isn't something that is locked, finished, complete," said Serota. "We would hope to buy one or two more rooms a year."
Serota said the donation was up there with the great bequests which led to the establishment of the Tate, by Henry Tate at the end of the 19th century, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, by Samuel Courtauld in the 1930s and 1940s.
"It is an extraordinary act of philanthropy and I don't know the equivalent of it anywhere else in the world. It will be a legacy for future generations," he added.
It is hoped the public will get to see the first rooms in spring 2009.
Andy Warhol, Skulls (1976)
Winter Bears (1988) by Jeff Koons
Gilbert & George, Existers (1984)
Ron Mueck, Spooning Couple (2005)
Wall Drawing #1136 (2004) by Sol Le Witt
Self-Portrait (1983) by Robert Mapplethorpe
Bruce Nauman, La Brea/Art Tips/Rat Spit/Tar Pits (1972)
Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock (1995)
Richard Hamilton, Four Self-portraits (1990)
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Blid (1994)
2008年2月3日 星期日
Bono and Hirst head art sale to fight Aids
Leading artists donate works for auction to raise £14m for Red campaign in Africa
Sean O'Hagan
Sunday February 3, 2008
The Observer
An extraordinary array of contemporary art will go under the hammer next week for Red, the brand created by U2 star and activist Bono, to raise money to combat the Aids epidemic in Africa.
The auction, on 14 February, is the first of its kind and features mainly new works donated by more than 60 artists, including Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley. At a conservative estimate, it could raise $28m (£14m) in a few hours of bidding.
The event has been organised by Bono and Damien Hirst, who has contributed seven pieces, including one of his signature medicine cabinets full of pills, entitled Where There's a Will, There's a Way. That work alone carries a cautious reserve price of $6m. Last year a similar piece by Hirst, Lullaby Spring, sold for almost $20m at Sotheby's in London. 'We began by aiming to make $20 million,' said Hirst, over the phone, from his house in Mexico, 'so anything over that will be a bonus.'
Bono first discussed the idea with Hirst two years ago while they were holidaying together in the south of France. 'Basically, he took me out on a boat, got me very drunk and asked me to do it,' said Hirst. 'It has taken two years, but now we've got there'.
Hirst began by sending handwritten letters to about 50 artists, asking them to donate a work. 'I thought the personal touch would make all the difference,' he said, 'It was an exercise in the fine art of guilt-tripping.' He received 'about 20 refusals, some for good reasons, some from artists who just didn't want to do it'. He won't be drawn on the refuseniks.
Many artists responded by making a work specifically for the auction on two suggested themes, Red and Love. Emin has made a red neon sign with the words 'I Promise to Love You' inside a heart, Marc Quinn has donated Red Sphinx, a sculpture of a bikini-clad Kate Moss in a provocative yoga pose, and the graffiti artist Banksy has given three works, including Keep It Spotless, in which he has 'defaced' a spot painting by Hirst.
'It's not work from the back of the cupboard that's been dragged out and dusted down for charity,' said Hirst. 'The response has been pretty damn impressive across the board.' Hirst has given everyone who contributed a limited edition print of one of his works.
Unsurprisingly, the dominant colour in the catalogue of more than 72 works is red, the most emblematic work Hirst's painting All You Need Is Love, a huge love heart encrusted with butterflies on gloss paint, which is priced at $1.5m.
Since the catalogue was printed, several other artists have come on board, including Julian Schnabel, who has painted a portrait of the late Benazir Bhutto. 'I asked him what it was about,' said Bono, 'and he said "untimely death".'
The Red art show will go on display at the Gagosian Gallery in New York tomorrow. According to Hirst, neither Gagosian nor Sotheby's will receive any money other than administration costs. Money raised will go to the Global Fund anti-Aids programmes in Africa.
'There is lot of pre-sale expectation,' says Cheyenne Westphal, head of contemporary art sales at Sotheby's. 'It is essentially a charity auction, but with one big difference - all the work comes direct from the artists, not from private collections, and much of it has been made specifically for the event.'
On Valentine's night, Hirst will be in New York, 'holed up in a bar around the corner from Sotheby's'. Bono plans to be there when the bidding starts. 'I won't be wielding the hammer,' he said, 'but I'll be in the room willing them on.' He added: 'This is a unique event, an unholy mix of commerce and activism, culture and politics. It's also a way of keeping the world interested.'
Sean O'Hagan
Sunday February 3, 2008
The Observer
An extraordinary array of contemporary art will go under the hammer next week for Red, the brand created by U2 star and activist Bono, to raise money to combat the Aids epidemic in Africa.
The auction, on 14 February, is the first of its kind and features mainly new works donated by more than 60 artists, including Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley. At a conservative estimate, it could raise $28m (£14m) in a few hours of bidding.
The event has been organised by Bono and Damien Hirst, who has contributed seven pieces, including one of his signature medicine cabinets full of pills, entitled Where There's a Will, There's a Way. That work alone carries a cautious reserve price of $6m. Last year a similar piece by Hirst, Lullaby Spring, sold for almost $20m at Sotheby's in London. 'We began by aiming to make $20 million,' said Hirst, over the phone, from his house in Mexico, 'so anything over that will be a bonus.'
Bono first discussed the idea with Hirst two years ago while they were holidaying together in the south of France. 'Basically, he took me out on a boat, got me very drunk and asked me to do it,' said Hirst. 'It has taken two years, but now we've got there'.
Hirst began by sending handwritten letters to about 50 artists, asking them to donate a work. 'I thought the personal touch would make all the difference,' he said, 'It was an exercise in the fine art of guilt-tripping.' He received 'about 20 refusals, some for good reasons, some from artists who just didn't want to do it'. He won't be drawn on the refuseniks.
Many artists responded by making a work specifically for the auction on two suggested themes, Red and Love. Emin has made a red neon sign with the words 'I Promise to Love You' inside a heart, Marc Quinn has donated Red Sphinx, a sculpture of a bikini-clad Kate Moss in a provocative yoga pose, and the graffiti artist Banksy has given three works, including Keep It Spotless, in which he has 'defaced' a spot painting by Hirst.
'It's not work from the back of the cupboard that's been dragged out and dusted down for charity,' said Hirst. 'The response has been pretty damn impressive across the board.' Hirst has given everyone who contributed a limited edition print of one of his works.
Unsurprisingly, the dominant colour in the catalogue of more than 72 works is red, the most emblematic work Hirst's painting All You Need Is Love, a huge love heart encrusted with butterflies on gloss paint, which is priced at $1.5m.
Since the catalogue was printed, several other artists have come on board, including Julian Schnabel, who has painted a portrait of the late Benazir Bhutto. 'I asked him what it was about,' said Bono, 'and he said "untimely death".'
The Red art show will go on display at the Gagosian Gallery in New York tomorrow. According to Hirst, neither Gagosian nor Sotheby's will receive any money other than administration costs. Money raised will go to the Global Fund anti-Aids programmes in Africa.
'There is lot of pre-sale expectation,' says Cheyenne Westphal, head of contemporary art sales at Sotheby's. 'It is essentially a charity auction, but with one big difference - all the work comes direct from the artists, not from private collections, and much of it has been made specifically for the event.'
On Valentine's night, Hirst will be in New York, 'holed up in a bar around the corner from Sotheby's'. Bono plans to be there when the bidding starts. 'I won't be wielding the hammer,' he said, 'but I'll be in the room willing them on.' He added: 'This is a unique event, an unholy mix of commerce and activism, culture and politics. It's also a way of keeping the world interested.'
2007年10月30日 星期二
Simon Sainsbury's £100m art gift to Tate and National Gallery
30/10/2007 Telegraph
The late Simon Sainsbury has bequeathed a treasure trove of paintings to the nation, writes Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
The greatest British art bequest in decades, which will see 18 masterpieces valued at up to £100 million divided between the National Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, was revealed yesterday.
The paintings, including two Monets, a Gauguin, three Lucian Freuds and a Francis Bacon, have been left to the nation by Simon Sainsbury, a scion of the supermarket family who died last October aged 76. Sainsbury, with his two brothers - Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and Sir Timothy Sainsbury, a former Conservative Trade ministe - paid for the £35m Sainsbury wing at the National Gallery in the 1990s. Although Simon Sainsbury was the most private of the grocery dynasty - he refused honours and would not allow an entry in Who's Who - he was a major art collector and one of Britain's most generous philanthropists. He is estimated to have given away more than £100m during his lifetime. With no children - he lived for 40 years with Stewart Grimshaw, a restaurateur and bookseller - Sainsbury offered the Tate and the National Galleries the pick of his collection 10 years ago and asked them to submit "wish lists". Several of the paintings have not been seen in public for years. |
From Sainsbury, a great-grandson of the founder of the grocery chain, The National Gallery is to receive five pictures: two Monets, Snow Scene at Argenteuil (1875) and Water-Lilies, Setting Sun (about 1907); Paul Gaugin's Bowl of Fruit and Tankard before a Window (about 1890); Edgar Degas's After the Bath (about 1896); and Henri Rousseau's Portrait of Joseph Brummer (1909).
The two Tate galleries will receive 13 works; John Woootton's Life Size Horse with Huntsman Blowing a Horn (1732); Thomas Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Carter (1747-8); Johan Zoffany's Colonel Blair and his Family and Indian Ayah in an Interior (1789); two paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath (1925) and The Yellow Boat (1936-8); Victor Pasmore's The Hanging Gardens of Hammersmith No 1 (1944-7); three works by Balthus, The Snack (1940), Nude on a Chaise Longue (1950) and The Golden Fruit (1956); Francis Bacon's Study for a Portrait (1952); and three paintings by Lucian Freud, Girl with a Kitten (1947), Boy Smoking (1950-51) and The Painter's Mother (1972).
It is expected that other, unnamed works from Sainsbury's collection, will be sold at auction.
The bequest will be shown for the first time at Tate Britain next summer.
Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, described the gift as "extraordinarily generous" and called it "one of the most important bequests to come to the nation in the last 100 years".
Top prices for artists
Below are the auction records for the artists named in the bequest list.
Claude Monet: £18.5m (2007) Snow Scene at Argenteuil, 1875
Water-Lilies, Setting Sun, about 1907
Lucian Freud: £7.8m (2007) Boy Smoking, 1950-51
Edgar Degas: £17.6m (1999) After the Bath, about 1896
Paul Gauguin: $40.3m (2006) Bowl of Fruit and Tankard before a Window, probably 1890
Henri Rousseau: £2.9m (1993) Portrait of Joseph Brummer, 1909
Thomas Gainsborough: £2.6m (2002) Mr and Mrs Carter of Bullingdon House, Bulmer, Essex
Johan Zoffany: £3.5m (2001)
Pierre Bonnard: $8.5m (2006) 
The Yellow Boat, c.1936-8
John Wootton: £252,000 (1999) Size Horse with Huntsman Blowing a Horn (c.1732)
Victor Pasmore: £221,000 (1997)
Balthus: $6.7m (2006) The Snack
Francis Bacon: $52.6m (2007) Study for a Portrait, 1952
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