Gil Kaplan’s Magritte goes under the hammer
NewsThe star attraction in Christie’s upcoming surrealist auction is René Magritte’s L’ami intime, a landmark in surreal art.
The work was bought 40 years ago by the magazine publisher and conductor Gilbert Kaplan who, aside from his public activities, wrote a monograph on Magritte and immersed himself in the artist’s meanderings.
L’ami intime, from the Gil and Lena Kaplan collection, is expected to fetch £30-50 million at auction.
Gil, who conducted Mahler’s second symphony all over the world, died in January 2016, aged 74.
I suddenly want a baguette and a glass of wine.
A wonderful, very inspiring, very Belgian painting!
It’s a very wrong painting, baguettes and wine glasses never float like that in the air behind one’s back. At least, I have never seen it, not even in Paris.
Sally
Interesting, though calling Mr Kaplan a “conductor” is perhaps pushing it a bit. He did conduct Mahler 2 a lot but his repertoire was even smaller than Carlos Kleiber’s…………..
I sang Mahler 2 under his baton. He was a conductor.
Or was he……….?
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Inspirational!