The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction Tuesday, when it sold for a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London.

Update 4/26/24: "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" by Gustav Klimt sold at auction this week for $32 million to an anonymous bidder from Hong Kong. The original story on the painting and auction ...

Gustav Klimt's "Lady with a Fan" sold for $108.4 million, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of art, and most expensive painting, ever sold in Europe. The last portrait Gustav Klimt ...

A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century ... The painting is to be sold on behalf of its Austrian owners, who have not been named, along with the legal successors of ...

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By Scott Reyburn Reporting from London Post-Brexit London regained some credibility as the capital of Europe’s high-value art market on Tuesday when a radiant portrait by Gustav Klimt ...

A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna for €30 million. The Austrian modernist artist started work on the “ Portrait of ...

In a striking 1917 portrait by Gustav Klimt, Fräulein Lieser wears a bright ... The work is being sold on behalf of both the consignor and the legal descendants of the Lieser family, in ...

A long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has finally reappeared ... Another one of Klimt’s famous pieces, the Portrait of Miss Lieser (1917), sold for $32 million at auction last year.

In 2024, Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) sold for €30 million, €35 million with fees, ($32.15 million, $37.51 million with fees), on the lower side of its presale estimate of €30 to €50 ...

VIENNA (AP) — A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros ($32 million). The Austrian ...