Robert Rosenblum’s Last Quip; Klimt Story’s Last Retelling

There are probably others, but here’s a good example of the late wit and wisdom of curator/scholar Robert Rosenblum, quoted in a very interesting, detailed Klimt post mortem by Eileen Kinsella in January’s ARTnews (not yet online):
I myself love Klimt up to a point, but it’s like going to a Viennese bakery.
Talking to Rosenblum was like Viennese pastry: sinfully delicious.
With the help of ample time to flesh out her late-breaking account, Kinsella gives an incisive rendering of the dance between Adele I purchaser Ronald Lauder (“It took about three seconds”) and the attorneys for the Bloch-Bauer heirs (“There were several weeks of discussions”). Attorney Steve Thomas not only exhaustively contradicts Lauder’s version of events, but also fills in some of the details about serious competing offers.
This, coupled with Tyler Green‘s much earlier Fortune magazine account, gives us a good look at the art of the megabucks art deal.