Exhibition

The Ronald S. Lauder Collection

Nov 11, 2022 — Apr 17, 2023

A major exhibition featuring approximately 500 works from the collection of the Neue Galerie’s co-founder and President, many of which have never been on public display.

Ronald S. Lauder in his home, 2022
Photo: Shahar Azran

In celebration of our twentieth anniversary, we invite our visitors to share in the full experience of my collection. The exhibition traces why I became an art collector, why I acquired what I have, and shares these ideas with the public, which I think is a critical part of collecting and connoisseurship.

Ronald S. Lauder

Neue Galerie New York culminates its twentieth anniversary season with the opening of “The Ronald S. Lauder Collection,” a major exhibition featuring approximately 500 works from the collection of the museum’s co-founder and President, many of which have never been on public display. The exhibition provides unique insight into one of the finest private collections in the world and introduces visitors to the mindset of a passionate lifelong connoisseur of art, whose forward-thinking vision laid the groundwork for the museum.

Developed over the course of sixty-give years, the Lauder Collection is defined by an absolute dedication to art of beauty, quality, and rarity. Only on one other occasion has the public had the opportunity to explore the collection comprehensively, in a special exhibition organized in honor of the museum’s tenth anniversary, which included artworks dating from the third century BCE through the twentieth century. Now, for its twentieth anniversary year, the Neue Galerie reveals the continued evolution of the Lauder Collection, including masterworks of Greek and Roman sculpture, Italian thirteenth and fourteenth century gold-ground paintings, objects for a Kunstkammer, and Austrian and German painting, sculpture and decorative arts from the early twentieth century. With a focus on important additions to the core collection, as well as new areas of inquiry, the exhibition conveys the collector’s commitment to excellence across a broad spectrum of art. Displayed throughout the museum’s two gallery floors, the exhibition situates these works in domestically scaled settings similar to how they appear in Lauder’s own home.

Ronald S. Lauder brings you inside his home with personal insights on his passion for art and collecting.

IN THE NEWS

“Art collector Ronald Lauder is opening the doors to his latest acquisitions, and everyone is invited.”
—Town & Country

“Marvel at 500 works…from the collection of Neue Galerie’s co-founder and president, Ronald S. Lauder, each showing his penchant for the art of superb beauty, quality, and rarity.”
—Time Out

Selected Works

Unknown
Monumental Head of a Goddess
Greek, Hellenistic, ca. mid-second century BCE
Marble
Private Collection
Photo: Hulya Kolabas

Workshop of Pasquier Grenier
The Loggers, ca. 1460–70
Unbleached and polychrome wool
Private Collection

Unknown
Chess Piece in the Form of a Warder (Rook) from the Lewis Chess Hoard,
probably Norwegian, Trondheim, ca. 1200
Walrus ivory
Private Collection
Photo: Hulya Kolabas

Michael Witz the Younger
Infantry Armor, Austrian, Innsbruck, ca. 1560
Steel, leather, brass
Collection of Ronald S. Lauder, Promised Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Hulya Kolabas

Giovanni di Paolo
(Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
(1398–1482)
Saint Clare Rescuing the Shipwrecked, fifteenth century
Tempera and gold on panel
Private Collection

Bernardo Daddi
(active ca. 1312/20; died 1348)
Madonna and Child with Four Angels (Central
(Central predella panel from the San Giorgio a Ruballa altarpiece)
Florence, 1348
Tempera and gold on panel
Private Collection

Lucas Cranach the Elder
(1472-1553)
Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous as Electoral Prince,
ca. 1528–30
Oil on panel
Private Collection

Unknown
Jug, Italian, ca. 1600
Rock crystal; gold, enamel
Private Collection

Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
Moving Water, 1898 (reworked between 1899 and 1903)
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

Carl Moll
(1861-1945)
White Interior, 1905
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Oil, gold, and silver on canvas
Neue Galerie New York. Acquired through the generosity of Ronald S. Lauder,
the heirs of the Estates of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, and the Estée Lauder Fund

Egon Schiele
(1890-1918)
Triple Self-Portrait, 1913
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Private Collection

Monumental Head of a Goddess, Greek, Hellenistic, ca. mid-second century BCE

Workshop of Pasquier Grenier (Flemish, 1447–1493), The Loggers, ca. 1460–70

Chess Piece in the Form of a Warder (Rook) from the Lewis Chess Hoard, probably Norwegian, Trondheim, ca. 1200, walrus ivory.

Michael Witz the Younger (Austrian, Innsbruck, active from ca. 1525–last recorded 1588), Infantry Armor, Austrian, Innsbruck, ca. 1560

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, 1398–1482), Saint Clare Rescuing the Shipwrecked, fifteenth century

Bernardo Daddi (Italian, Florence, active ca. 1312/20; died 1348), Madonna and Child with Four Angels (Central predella panel from the San Giorgio a Ruballa altarpiece), Florence, 1348

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous as Electoral Prince, ca. 1528–30

Jug, Italian, ca. 1600, rock crystal; gold, enamel. Private Collection. Image courtesy Neue Galerie New York

Gustav Klimt, Moving Water, 1898 (reworked between 1899 and 1903), oil on canvas. Private Collection. Image courtesy Neue Galerie New York

Carl Moll, White Interior, 1905, oil on canvas. Private Collection. Image courtesy Neue Galerie New York

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918), Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, oil, gold, and silver on canvas. Neue Galerie New York. Acquired through the generosity of Ronald S. Lauder, the heirs of the Estates of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, and the Estée Lauder Fund

Egon Schiele, Triple Self-Portrait, 1913, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper. Private Collection. Image courtesy Neue Galerie New York