Wittgenstein’s painting goes for a million
NewsAkseli Gallen-Kallela’s 1902 painting “Autumn, Five Crosses”, formerly owned by the Wittgenstein family of Vienna, sold last month at Christie’s for 1.1 million Euros.
The pianist Paul Wittgenstein and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein grew up with this Finnish masterpiece on their wall.
Gallen-Kallela also made epic portraits of Mahler and Sibelius.
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