An anonymous buyer paid nine figures for Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' at a Sotheby's auction on Nov. 18. Streisand once owned a different Klimt

Gustav Klimt's Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer painting sold for more than $236 million, becoming the second-most-expensive work of art to be auctioned, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.

What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Gustav Klimt work have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday in a buzzy, record-breaking night.

The Falling Rocket” was ahead of its time. When the critic John Ruskin insulted it, a notorious libel case ensued.

At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.