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展览前夕 悉尼“聪明的收藏家”重生了
新闻来源： 悉尼先驱晨报
日期： 2010年5月18日
作者： Steve Meacham
传闻在12月伦敦拍卖会上,当这幅油画被卖出的时候，Andrew Lloyd Webber也在打量着它 —— Solomon Joseph Solomon 的巨幅油画 ”夏娃的诞生“。显然，这位超级巨富作曲家认为自己没有足够大的房间来挂这幅画。 （Andrew Lloyd Webber是世界上最著名的英国维多利亚时代后期油画收藏家）
新南威尔士州美术馆的专家们明白问题的所在。由于这幅 Solomon 的巨著高达三米多，如果把它和另外四十幅油画、水彩画和雕塑放在一起展出，它显然是太大了。所有这些收藏品都将出现在美术馆的最新展览 “维多利亚时代的视觉艺术”中。它们的主人是悉尼商人 John Schaeffer。 美术馆馆长 Richard Beresford 这样解释：我们不能把这幅画放进现代风格的美术馆氛围里。这幅画应该被挂在1890年代的古老的大房子里，那才相称。
John Schaeffer在伦敦佳士得拍卖会上用116万澳币拍得这幅油画，用此举证明了他在国际艺术品市场上的高调回归。他的财富来自于他创建的公司保洁服务。自从他在2003年第一次在美术馆展出了他所收藏的拉斐尔前派收藏品后，他出了不少事。股权补仓和一次昂贵的离婚使他不得不卖出了悉尼东区最著名的两栋豪宅—— Boomerang, 和 Rona。 他收藏的大部分史诗画都出自十九世纪油画巨匠，比如说 Lord Leighton 和 Ford Madox Ford，估计这些收藏品共卖出了两千万澳币。过去的五年中他悄悄地在累积第二批收藏品。那么这批藏品是否能够和第一批藏品媲美了呢？美术馆馆长 Richard Beresford 认为： John 之前的藏品中固然有一些非常重要的油画，但是凭着这一幅 Solomon 的作品，John的收藏品回到了同一水平。他是个非常聪明的收藏家。 在Solomon的时代（1860年 - 1927年），他的作品以“巨大、华丽夸张的、戏剧性的主题”而众所周知， Richard Beresford 补充道，那些看上去很象是在法国沙龙的油画作品，这是因为Solomon曾在巴黎学画。这幅“夏娃的诞生”油画作品绝对能带给你感官的刺激，它表现的是圣经故事中夏娃自亚当的肋条中诞生的那一刻，而两位天使则是助产士。 Soloman死后，他的遗孀把这幅画捐赠给了伦敦郊区Ealing，从此再没有人看见过它的风采了。John Schaeffer 已经请人清洁、修复了这幅画，使得它的色彩和深度得以展现。
展览开放日期：5月20日 至8月29日
* Andrew Lloyd Webber: 英国人，音乐剧作曲家，今年62岁。他六岁开始作曲，九岁出版第一个作品。
* Solomon Joseph Solomon: 英国人，十九世纪到二十世纪拉斐尔前派的油画家。犹太家庭。著名作品之一是 Samson，描绘了圣经里的故事 Samson and Delilah。
* John Schaeffer: 悉尼商人，Tempo公司主席。Tempo公司提供清洁、保安、餐饮及快递服务。
News in English
Sydney's 'clever collector' reborn on eve of exhibition
Steve Meacham
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
According to the rumour mill, Andrew Lloyd Webber was seen sizing up Solomon Joseph Solomon's massive painting Birth of Eve when it was sold at auction in London in December.
Apparently, the mega-rich composer (also the world's most famous collector of late Victorian British paintings) felt he didn't have a room large enough to hang it.
Installers at the Art Gallery of NSW understand the problem. More than three metres tall, Solomon's masterpiece is too large to hang alongside the other 40-odd paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures owned by the Sydney businessman John Schaeffer that form the gallery's new exhibition, Victorian Visions.
"We can't fit it into a modern gallery space," explained its curator, Richard Beresford. "This one has to be hung in the grand old 1890s building, which was built for grand pictures like this."
Schaeffer paid L713,250 ($1.16 million) for the painting at Christie's, marking his high-profile return to the international art market.
Much has happened to the man who made his fortune from corporate cleaning since his first Pre-Raphaelite collection was exhibited at the gallery in 2003. Since then, margin calls and a costly divorce have forced him to sell two of Sydney's most famous eastern suburbs homes, Boomerang and Rona. Most of his epic paintings by 19th-century masters such as Lord Leighton and Ford Madox Ford sold for an estimated $20 million. Yet over the past five years he has quietly built a second great collection. Is this one as good?
"There were some outrageously important paintings in his previous collection," Beresford says. "But with this painting by [Solomon], he's coming back to the same sort of level. He's a very clever collector."
Solomon was well-known in his day (1860-1927) for what Beresford calls "his big, dramatic, rhetorical, histrionic subjects which look like French salon paintings because he studied in Paris". This "sensuous" painting shows the moment of Eve's biblical birth from Adam's rib, with two angels as the midwives.
But since the artist died and his widow bequeathed it to the London suburb of Ealing, it has never been seen in its full glory. Schaeffer has had it cleaned and restored, revealing colours and depths.
The exhibition runs from May 20 to August 29.
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