Lauder is one of several major collectors who have used their wealth to support right-wing candidates this midterm election cycle
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Describing the donation as the most significant to the department in nearly 80 years, museum will rename galleries after the philanthropist
Austria and Los Angeles had both hoped to keep the works
The painting will go to the Neue Galerie
Unconfirmed reports suggest Ronald Lauder is the purchaser
But only with continued funding from cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder
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1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's
Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940