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Image courtesy of Belvedere Museum, Vienna. Klimt’s $236 million sale can be seen as a defining moment in the global market, which clearly indicates that the thirst for blue-chip masterpieces never ...

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 Eric Andersson joined PEOPLE as a senior ...

(AP) - A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth ...

A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker leads bidding for Gustav Klimt's “Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer” (1914–16) (image courtesy Sotheby’s New York) Gustav Klimt’s 1914–16 portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold ...