中國電影大亨買下畢加索名作
Hollywood’s power base has been shifting to China, and now its art is headed there, too: Wang Zhongjun, a Chinese movie tycoon, was the mystery buyer at Sotheby’s on Tuesday of a Picasso portrait owned for nearly seven decades by one of Hollywood’s royal families.
好萊塢的權力基礎已轉向中國，如今它收藏的藝術品也轉向那裏：週二，蘇富比拍賣行(Sotheby’s)的一幅畢加索(Picasso)肖像的神祕買家就是中國電影大亨王中軍。在之前的近七十年裏，這幅肖像畫的主人是好萊塢的一個名門望族。Mr. Wang, a co-founder of the film company Huayi Brothers, paid $29.9 million for Picasso’s “Femme au Chignon Dans un Fauteuil,” which carried a presale estimate of $18 million. It was auctioned in New York by Sotheby’s on behalf of the Goldwyn family, which has long been involved in the entertainment business in Los Angeles. Samuel Goldwyn, best known as the G in M.G.M., bought the Picasso in 1956.
王中軍是華誼兄弟電影公司的聯合創始人。他以2990萬美元買下畢加索的《盤髮髻女子坐像》(Femme au Chignon Dans un Fauteuil)，這件作品的預估價爲1800萬美元，是蘇富比拍賣行代表戈爾德溫(Goldwyn)家族在紐約拍賣的。該家族投身洛杉磯娛樂業多年。塞繆爾·戈爾德溫(Samuel Goldwyn)是米高梅電影公司(M.G.M.)的創始人，公司名稱中的G指的就是他。他在1956年買下了畢加索的這幅畫作。
The Goldwyn heirs decided to sell the family’s art collection (and Hollywood Hills mansion) after Samuel Goldwyn Jr., an art film producer, died in January.
今年1月，藝術電影製片人小塞繆爾·戈爾德溫(Samuel Goldwyn Jr.)去世後，這個家族的繼承者們決定賣掉家族的藝術收藏品（和好萊塢山的宅邸）。
Sotheby’s revealed that Mr. Wang was the winning bidder on Wednesday. One of China’s richest men, Mr. Wang has recently emerged as a deep-pocketed buyer of Impressionist and modern art; he paid an eye-popping $61.8 million for a Van Gogh still life at Sotheby’s in November. It now hangs in his home in Hong Kong. “I first fell in love with the painting and then I fell in love with its story,” Mr. Wang said in a statement. “The Goldwyn family is legendary in our industry.”
蘇富比拍賣行透露說，王中軍是週三的中標者。王是中國最富有的人之一，最近因在購買印象主義和現代藝術品時出手闊綽而引人注目。去年11月，他令人震驚地豪擲6180萬美元買下梵高(Van Gogh)的一幅靜物寫生。如今，那幅畫懸掛在他香港的家中。“我先是愛上了這幅畫，然後愛上了它背後的故事，”王中軍在聲明中說，“戈爾德溫家族是電影界的傳奇。”Over the last year, Huayi Brothers has become a force in Western movie financing, investing in studio films like Sony’s “Fury,” starring Brad Pitt, and finalizing an 18-movie cofinancing and distribution agreement with STX Entertainment, an upstart movie operation.
去年，華誼兄弟成爲西方電影融資的一股力量，參與投資索尼公司(Sony)的《狂怒》（Fury，布拉德·皮特[Brad Pitt]主演）等影片，與新興的STX娛樂公司(STX Entertainment)敲定了18部電影的聯合融資和發行合同。Another painting from the Goldwyn collection, Henri Matisse’s “Anémones et Grenades,” estimated to bring as much as $7 million, sold for $6.1 million on Tuesday. Sotheby’s declined to say who bought it.
戈爾德溫家族的另一件藏品亨利·馬蒂斯(Henri Matisse)的《銀蓮花和石榴》(Anémones et Grenades)預估價達700萬美元，週二的實際拍賣價爲610萬美元。蘇富比拒絕透露這幅畫的買家身份。
