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As the world's most expensive painting was carefully uncrated in New York.The new owner waited to see the work that literally cost him a fortune.
I just absolutely adore it.
Gustav Klimt's gilded masterpiece,the portrait of Adele,cost Ronald Lauder a record-breaking 135 million dollars. Did you hold your breath for a moment, saying, you know, I don't know if I can do this? Sometimes ,now I look back and say ‘how did I do it’.Er,but at the moment when it was a question of buying it, it took me about 2 seconds to say "Yes."
In his first television interview since buying the work, Lauder said today it would become the star of his museum. The Neue Galerie, a lifelong collector. Each piece, I remember when I got it...
He's heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune and worth an estimated 2.7 billion dollars. But I have to imagine that even for you; this is a lot of money. Er,this was not a question of money, This was a question of something so special.This piece is priceless.
Klimt painted Adele Bloch-Bauer in 1907, the daughter of a Jewish sugar magnate. She was reported to be the artist's lover. But in 1938, when the Nazis invaded Austria, the painting was looted. After an epic legal battle, Adele's portrait was finally returned to her heirs in Los Angeles earlier this year. They then decided to sell it.
On the final leg of its incredible journey, the gold portrait was brought from Los Angeles in an unmarked armored truck shadowed by 2 security cars. They traveled non-stop for 3 days and nights across the country to bring the world's most expensive painting here to New York.
Maria Altmann, Adele's 90-year-old niece, came to see her aunt's portrait today and said the painting. "He's found its home here. It makes us all very happy. “Installed behind bullet-proof glass, the shimmering Adele will soon be on public display. The painting's price tag is now as rich as its history.
Anthony Mason, CBS News , New York.
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uncrate:remove from the crate 打开....包装
gilded:covered with a very thin layer of gold 镀金的
magnate:a successful and important person with a lot of power in a particular industry 富豪,大资本家
epic:relating to the writing of epics,an epic fight or other activity is long and difficult 大规模的
shimmering:glistening tremulously 微光闪烁的
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