Hats off to Amb. Ronald Lauder for Klimt’s Woman in Black Feather Hat

Provenance and trust. Trust in provenance, now The Codex Sassoon

In a world of injustices and thieves, sometimes known as the “art world,” Ronald Lauder just moved the bar, and may have given art lawyers something to write about, by repurchasing Gustav Klimt’s Woman in Black Feather Hat, from himself.

Wait, no, that’s not the point.

With the flash of a pen, and a wire transfer, he firmly pierced the Philippe du Col Ro…