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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：She was one of the most powerful women in the art world. Three works from her collection could sell for nearly $150 millionThe arts leader and patron Agnes Gund left a void after her death. Some of her most cherished works, including a rarely seen Mark Rothko, will be offered by Christie’s New York next week.
📅 发布时间：Updated May 12, 2026, 9:31 AM ET
📝 英文原文：
She was the president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York for more than a decade, donated more than 1,800 artworks to institutions over her lifetime, and once sold her most treasured Lichtenstein painting for $165 million to fund a major anti-incarceration initiative. Seven years before the arts patron and leader Agnes Gund died — at age 87, in the fall of 2025 — The New York Times profiled her lifelong philanthropic work under the headline “Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person?”That’s quite possibly so, as the piece noted that by that point, she had spent decades giving her fortune away to the arts, as well as to AIDS research and reproductive rights groups. Generosity on that scale has become a rarity as wealth has increasingly concentrated at the top, and bunker-building tech billionaires seem less interested in arts and culture than previous moneyed generations — unless it’s tobuy out the Met Gala.Gund’s art collection, like her cash flow, was fluid. By her later years, much of her art collection had been promised to museums. But next week, three works that hung in her Upper East Side home by Cy Twombly, Joseph Cornell and Mark Rothko — the last of which had only once been publicly shown — could sell for nearly $150 million combined. The Agnes Gund collection will be sold on May 18 as part of Christie’s wider 20th- and 21st- century evening sale in New York.Mark Rothko, No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe)Christie's Images Ltd. 2026“She put artists first,” said Sara Friedlander, who chairs the “Post-war and Contemporary Art, Americas” department for Christie’s. “Her relationships with artists were at the core of her being, and it’s how she was able to acquire such incredible works.”Rothko made “No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe),” a monumental swath of inky black and deep green slashed with red, in 1964. That same year, he began the 14 darkened panels of the Rothko Chapel in Houston — his final body of work before his death in 1970. According to Christie’s,
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
她担任纽约现代艺术博物馆馆长十多年，一生向机构捐赠了 1,800 多件艺术品，并曾以 1.65 亿美元的价格出售了她最珍贵的利希滕斯坦画作，以资助一项重大的反监禁倡议。艺术赞助人和领袖艾格尼丝·冈德 (Agnes Gund) 于 2025 年秋天去世，享年 87 岁。七年前，《纽约时报》以“艾格尼丝·冈德是最后一个好富人吗？”为标题，介绍了她一生的慈善工作。
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