10 November 2012450 PArK AveNUe New yorK, Ny 10022

The hermiTage museum FoundaTion annual

gala and BeneFiT aucTion

“I am deeply inspired by men and women who have changed the world profoundly. Catherine the Great was one of these women. I wanted to capture her essence in this piece. Deeply rooted inside her soul, she knew her purpose and her destiny. With that inner driven passion, she alone helped give the world one of the greatest gifts to its future, the Hermitage Museum.

In this piece Reflection, Catherine is shown in her coronation gown along with her crown. The viewer is able to look into her dress to see a present-day Hermitage – a view towards the future. Surrounding her to the right and underneath are many portraits of her family, her husband, and her lovers who influenced her and formed her life. Like a family tree, I’ve included branches to represent their connection to Catherine.

To the left of the main portrait, the viewer can see a reflection of Catherine. It is ghostlike, representing the lasting impression of her life echoing into eternity. Like the butterflies, each of us lives only a brief time, but can leave a permanent mark. Also, if the viewer looks into Catherine’s reflection at the correct angle, they will see themselves. This is symbolic of how each of us never actually sees oneself, but only a reflection as seen through the eyes of another.”

Private collectors of Ms. Magidson work include: Dara Mitchell, Antonio Banderas & Melanie Griffith, Jackie Bezos, Sarah & Gideon Gartner, and Sam & Cheryl Wyly

IngrId dee MagIdsonReflection, 2012

layered mixed media

43 x 33 in. (109.2 x 83.8 cm)

estimate $18,000-22,000

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Painter, comedian, musician and actor.

Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 18, 1943 and was raised in Ohio and Connecticut. He studied painting and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1965, and a Master of Fine Arts, 1967, in painting. Public collections of his work include: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

MarTIn MULLMalibu, 2012

oil on paper

21 x 30.25 in. (53.3 x 76.8 cm)

estimate $10,000–15,000

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The wide-ranging practice of Damien Hirst (b.1965, Bristol, UK)–installations, sculpture, painting and drawing--has sought to challenge the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media. Best known for the Natural History works, which present animals in vitrines suspended in formaldehyde, Hirst is equally renowned for his paintings. These include his butterfly paintings, tableaux of actual butterflies suspended in paint, or in A Beautiful Thing (2003), for instance, he arranged thousands of butterfly wings in a mandala-like pattern. Hirst has participated in numerous group exhibitions at major museums worldwide including, the Guggenheim, Bilbao; Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Canada; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Tate Modern; MoMA; Broad Contemporary Art Museum; LACMA; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Tate Britain; and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Solo exhibitions include Cornucopia, The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (2010), No Love Lost, The Wallace Collection, London (2009), Requiem, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2009), For the Love of God, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008), Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2005) and The Agony and the Ecstasy, Archaeological Museum, Naples (2004). In 2012 Tate Modern exhibited the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever held in the UK. He received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin in 1994 and the Turner Prize in 1995. He lives and works in London and Devon.

Courtesy of Ted Vassilev, DTR Modern Galleries

daMIen HIrsT Sacred 3 (Sanctum 3) from the Sanctum series, 2009

Edition of 59 Etching with photogravure and hand coloring

50.25 x 48.75 in. (127.6 x 123.8 cm) framed

estimate $20,000-25,000

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© Damien Hirst

Michal Rovner (b. 1957, Israel) lives and works between New York City and a farm in Israel.

Rovner’s work in video, sculpture and installation creates a chain of associations from the poetic to the political. In her work, masses of people move in rhythmic patterns that appear both orderly and disorderly, creating a new complex language. Her works about time and the human condition touch on processes of archeology and science.

Rovner’s work has been exhibited worldwide in over fifty solo exhibitions including Michal Rovner: The Space Between (2002), a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, Against Order? Against Disorder? (2003) at the Israeli Pavilion 50th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Fields (2005) at Jeu de Paume in collaboration with Festival d’Autume; with Fields of Fire (sound composed by Heiner Goebbles), Paris, and Histoires (2011), a solo exhibition in three parts at the Musee du Louvre in Paris.

Site specific video installations created by Rovner include: Mutual Interest (1997) at the Tate Gallery, London, Overhanging (1999) at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Overhang (2000) a site-specific installation at the Chase Manhattan Bank on Park Avenue New York; Untitled Paris 2003 (2004) at LVMH Headquarters, Paris; Living Landscape (2005), a permanent twelve meter high video projection at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, and Cracks in Time (2012) at Castello di Rivoli, Turin.

Rovner has been represented by Pace Gallery since 2003

MIcHaL rovnerGiorno e notte #3, 2003

pure pigment on archival paper

24 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (61.6 x 112.4 cm)

Edition 2 of 6 video drawing on paper

estimate $15,000–20,000

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© 2003 Michal Rovner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkPhoto by: Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery

David Levinthal was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, among others. His work is featured in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Polaroid Collection, MA.

davId LevInTHaL Fall of Berlin, 2012

61 1/2 x 79 1/2 in. (156.2 x 201.9 cm) framed

60 x 78 in. (152.4 x 198.1 cm) unframed

Pigment print on paper

Edition 1 of 3

estimate $30,000-40,000

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Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed “idea man,” Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: “Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.” Jeff Koons’ artworks rarely inspire moderate responses, and this is one signal of the importance of his achievement. Focusing on some of the most unexpected objects as models for his work, Koons’ works eschew typical standards of “good taste” in art and zero in rather precisely on the vulnerabilities of hierarchies and value systems. As critic Christopher Knight has written “He turns the traditional cliché of the work of art inside out: Rather than embodying a spiritual or expressive essence of a highly individuated artist, art here is composed from a distinctly American set of conventional middle-class values.” Since his first solo show in 1980, Koons’ work has been widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo shows include the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (2003), the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2004), which traveled to the Helsinki City Art Museum (2005); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008); “Jeff Koons: Versailles,” château de Versailles, France (2008–09). In 2009 alone, Koons had four major solo exhibitions in public institutions: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and the Serpentine Gallery, London. Most recently, the Beyeler Foundation hosted Koons’s first solo exhibition in a Swiss museum. Exhibitions also opened last June in Frankfurt where Koons’s paintings were presented at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt while his sculptures were shown with works from the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung permanent collection. The Whitney plans a major retrospective of his work in 2014. Koons lives and works in New York City.

Jeff KoonsMonkey Train, 2007

silkscreen with archival pigmented inkjet on Somerset paper

32 7/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.3 x 66.4 cm) unframed

35 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (89.5 x 73 cm) framed

29 from an edition of 40

estimate $25,000-35,000

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St. Petersburg, Peter the Great’s creation and the home of the Hermitage Museum, (Catherine the Great’s creation), is at its most beautiful and poetic during the “White Nights” celebration that follow the summer solstice. Join us for an exclusive aesthetic experience as we guide you to the city’s famous sites and hidden gems. Our White Nights Tour is your chance to discover Russia’s Imperial capital with its extraordinary heritage of palaces, museums, theaters, cathedrals and other cultural and historic landmarks. Over six days, you will experience exclusive access via customized behind-the-scenes visits led by world-class curators; private excursions by boat and horse-drawn carriage; great restaurants; and much, much more. The highlight of the Tour is the Hermitage Gala Banquet which will take place this year on Friday June 28th, a unique and luxurious evening of dinner and entertainment in the magnificent halls of the Winter Palace, where you will experience the museum no longer as a museum, but as the palace it also was. This year the Gala’s theme will be the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov whose history intertwines with that of the Hermitage itself.

WHITe nIgHTs, 2013 THe 400TH annIversary of THe HoUse of roManovThe Hermitage Museum Foundation

cordially invites you on an exclusive tour of St. Petersburg

White Nights, 2013 the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov

June 23 – 29, 2013

estimate $12,000-15,000 / per person

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A La Vieille Russie, a family enterprise and leading purveyors of Fabergé since its founding in Kiev in 1851, left the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and was re-established in Paris around 1920 by Jacques Zolotnitsky, the grandson of the founder. The New York store was opened in 1941 by the late Alexander Schaffer.

Still a multigenerational family business, under the direction of brothers, Messrs. Paul and Peter L. Schaffer, and Paul’s son, Dr. Mark Schaffer, A La Vieille Russie continues the tradition of dealing in fine art and antiques, and is known worldwide for its collection of Russian treasures.

Goldsmith and jeweler Carl Fabergé was a client, and today, Peter Schaffer is recognized as an international expert on his works. The gallery specializes in European and American antique jewelry, 18th Century European gold snuff boxes, and antique Russian fine and decorative art, including silver, enamel, and porcelain, paintings, icons, and furniture.

A La Vieille Russie has been at its present location on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street since 1961, opposite Central Park, and the proprieters maintain a strong exhibition schedule, both as exhibitors and lenders.

On behalf of the Board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation, on which Mr. Schaffer serves as its President, we are pleased to offer a very rare, private, and enchanted evening for eight – to view and explore the amazing and intricate works of the House of Fabergé. Champagne and caviar will be served.

a specIaL evenIng WITH peTer scHafferA La Vieille Russie

New York, New York

estimate $9,000-12,000

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a prIvaTe sTUdIo ToUr WITH Jeff KoonsNew York, New York

estimate $9,000-12,000

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