Getty Nets $18.9 Million from Auctioned Paintings
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu sold 14 paintings worth a total of $18.9 million at five sales in London in the past two weeks, auctioneers said.
The Getty works sold by Sotheby’s were a mixed lot by impressionist and 19th Century artists. Only one failed to sell: a dreary brown landscape by Edgar Degas.
The top price was $6.8 million paid by the Japanese conglomerate Aksa International for Paul Gauguin’s 1889 painting of a Breton boy in a landscape. Aksa also paid $68,600 for an 1895 landscape by Gustave Loiseau that Getty himself bought in 1957 from the Paris dealer, Durand-Ruel. An anonymous buyer paid $3 million for a picture of the cliffs at Pourville in Normandy by Claude Monet.
Unidentified buyers paid $3.6 million for a picture of three ballet dancers by Edgar Degas and $3.4 million for a standing female nude by Pierre Bonnard.
The only other identified buyer was London’s Mathaf Gallery, which bought an Orientalist painting of a Nubian guard by Ludwig Deutsch for $163,000.
The museum said it would use the proceeds from the latest sales to acquire other works.
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