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Femme Au Chignon Dans Un Fauteuil [Photo provided tochinadaily.com.cn]
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The chairman of Huayi Brothers Media Wang Zhongjun purchased Pablo Picasso's FemmeAu Chignon Dans Un Fauteuil for $29.93 million at the Impressionist & Modern Art EveningSale in New York on Tuesday.
The media mogul is famous not only for producing movie blockbusters, but also for hisimpeccable taste in paintings.
"I first fell in love with the painting and then I fell in love with its story. The Goldwyn family islegendary in our industry and in this one work, I can see not only Pablo Picasso's genius, butalso Samuel Goldwyn Sr.’s creative vision," Wang said.
The painting had remained in the Goldwyn family collection since it was acquired byHollywood legend Samuel Goldwyn Sr. in 1956. While long-celebrated for their extraordinarylegacy in Hollywood, Samuel Goldwyn Sr. and Jr. were both passionate collectors as well,and approached film in the same spirit with which they acquired important works of art formore than 50 years.
"It was a privilege to present longtime collectors and connoisseurs such as Wang Zhongjun toworks from the Goldwyn family collection this spring. It feels particularly poetic that Picasso'sportrait would unite these titans of Old and New Hollywood," said Simon Shaw, Co-Head ofSotheby’s Worldwide Impressionist & Modern Art Department.
Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby's Asia, commented on the increasing number of Asiancollectors, "It's thrilling to see these clients’ tastes and interests expanding, and to witnessthem making their presence felt across our salerooms worldwide."
Wang bought Van Gogh's 1890 painting Nature Morte, Vase aux Marguerites et Coquelicotsin November for $61.8 million.
Sotheby's yearly performance report for 2014, announced in January, shows an 18 percentincrease in turnover to a record high of $6 billion, of which buyers on the mainland and inHong Kong, Macao and Taiwan contributed more than $1 billion.
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