His large paintings sell for up to a million dollars on the primary market, and a recent work, "Smear," which he donated this year to a benefit auction for Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (whose board he serves on), brought $4.4 million at Sotheby's in May.
(He donated the damages to a hospital).
In 1920 he donated the trophy.
He donated the first $2 million himself.
But what really irked Goldin wasn't the low price — he didn't even need to check his computer database to know that he had donated this very recording to the Archives in 1976.
He donated $15,000 AUD from this fund and secured further support from the Australian Academy of Science ($15,000 AUD) and the Australian universities of the Group of Eight ($40,000 AUD), using the money to offer young Italian and Australian scientists 14 scholarships of $5000 AUD each.
Between 2000 and 2013, he donated more than $700,000 from this initiative.
This cycle alone he donated $67,000 to the committee, almost half of the $137,000 he doled out.
Sometimes, he has done this instantly, like the time he donated $250,000 to Planned Parenthood during the recent controversy involving the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.
