ART : The Getty’s Painting Acquisitions Under Goldner
* “La Promenade” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1870. Purchased in 1989 for $17.5 million at Sotheby’s London.
* “Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici” by Pontormo, ca. 1537. Purchased in 1989 for $35.2 million at Christie’s New York.
* “The Rue Mosnier With Flags” by Edouard Manet, 1878. Purchased in 1989 for $26.4 million at a Christie’s New York auction of works from the Paul Mellon collection.
* “An Allegory of Fortune” by Dosso Dossi, ca. 1530-42. Purchased in 1989 for an undisclosed sum from a London dealer who had paid $4 million for it at auction.
* “Irises” by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Purchased in 1990 for an undisclosed sum, three years after it had sold at Sotheby’s New York for a record $53.9 million. Sotheby’s brokered the Getty sale when Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was unable to complete payments on the painting.
* “Christ Crowned With Thorns” by Gerrit von Honthorst, circa 1620. Purchased in 1990 for an undisclosed sum from a private collection in Switzerland.
* “View of the Grand Canal” by Canaletto, early 1730s. Purchased in 1991 for an undisclosed sum from a London dealer.
* “The Miracles of Saint Francis of Paola” by Peter Paul Rubens, 1627-28. Purchased in 1991, reportedly for $11.5 million from a private collection in Britain.
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