If You Had An Extra $1.5 Billion Lying Around... (century, 20th, painters)
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I would spend the money. But the Klimpt didn't Brin $1.5 Billion- Paul Allen's art collection did, and his collection was well known to be the finest in the United States that was private.
Allen knew his stuff, and his collection wasn't as large as some others, but it was much better than anyone's. Allen bought only the best of the best.
The Klimt fetched $105 Million, a record high for the painter- surpassing $88 million a Kimpt made in 2006- but the highest price went for a Seurat that fetched $149 Million.
But those paintings were far from being the record breakers. An Andrew Wyeth fetched $20 Million and was expected to sell for $2 Million, A Van Gogh went for $117 Million, and a Gaugin went for $106 Million.
Allen was Bill Gates equal partner in Microsoft. He retired out of the company's management while young, but held his share of stock for his lifetime, and turned all his attention to living well and collecting in a few different areas.
Klimpt was the best of the early modernist painters, and his paintings were overlooked for a very long time. With good reason; a lot of them ended up in the hands of the Nazis, so they were hidden very well.
The reason for his current popularity is pretty simple; his paintings can hang side by side in a traditional collection of Impressionists or any of the 19th century art movements, and can hang with the abstractions of the 20th century just as easily.
He was immensely successful during his lifetime, and he died very wealthy.
Most of his work is still with the families who bought them over 100 years ago, and aren't expected to ever be sold publicly. So those that are will always be few and far between.
Alone, his paintings are spectacularly good by themselves. No reproduction can show just how masterful his work is.
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