Eduardo Costantini, 77 years old, and his wife, Elina Fernandez34, announced that they are expecting a baby through a post on social networkswhere they wrote: ” More than happy and excited to tell you that… we are pregnant.”
Elina had practically confirmed the pregnancy in an interview, where she had declared about her desire to become a mother: ”Yes, of course. Coming soon. It’s going to arrive very soon. “God has already decided.”
It was in the context of an interview with TV Faceswhere in response to the previous phrase, and the subsequent question from journalist Héctor Maugeri, the model assured that “We can’t say it yet, but it’s very close. Eduardo is going to blow me away, there is going to be a surprise later, I can’t say it yet.”
In addition, she added that becoming a mother ”would be divine. I think it’s innate, you already have it inside, I always had it very internalized, as well as that her husband would love it. He goes crazy. He has seven children, 21 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. The grandchildren range from 35 to 1 year old. And the great-grandchildren, three, four, five years old. We have a beautiful relationship with them, they are divine.”
He also revealed: ”We met and after a month and a half we were already thinking about our children. Since 2021 we have always prepared our house with a room for a baby. It is not thematically decorated, but it is assigned.” And he ended by saying that he imagines “being a very dedicated mother, with freedom.”
”I am extremely affectionate. “My son or daughter will see a very dedicated, happy and very hard-working mother,” she concluded.
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Eduardo Costantini paid more than $28 million for a painting by Leonora Carrington, which is now a record
The British-Mexican Leonora Carrington entered the pantheon of the most sought-after women artists, with the auction of her painting for 28.4 million dollars “The Distractions of Dagobert” at the spring auctions taking place this week in New York.
Last month, Costantini made headlines for acquiring the piece, describing it as ”an iconic painting.”
“It is one of the most admired works in the history of surrealism and a masterpiece without parallel in Latin American art”he added in a comment sent by the auction house.
Costantini was already the bidder who took a work by the British-Mexican artist thirty years ago to its peak. “Now we have achieved a new auction record!” he exclaimed exultantly.
The work will be part of a collection that also includes, among others, two important works by Remedios Varo and another by Frida Kahlo, “Diego and I”, for which she paid $34.8 million in November 2021. taking Latin American painting to levels never seen before.
After an exciting 10 minute battle In which six people bid, two of them in the room, the audience burst into applause when auctioneer Oliver Barker’s hammer rang announcing the award of the Carrington painting, which the house had estimated at between 12 and 18 million dollars.
This record places Carrington (1917-2011) “among the five most sought-after women artists, ahead of men like Max Ernst or Salvador Dalí,” according to Sotheby’s.
Along with Carrington and Frida Kahlo, this select club of female artists is completed by Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell.
