A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby's, where Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold for $236M after 20 minutes of bidding, eclipsing the artist ...

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

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 ...

Gustav Klimt has returned to global headlines after one of his rare full-length portraits sold for an extraordinary $236.4 million (around £180 million) at Sotheby's in New York, positioning the work ...

The collector’s trove of 55 works, including Klimt, Matisse and Munch, will be auctioned in November. By Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF ...

When it goes to auction later this month, Gustav Klimt’s final artwork could become the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The Viennese artist completed Lady With Fan just before his death ...

LONDON -- One of the last paintings by the renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has miraculously been found after vanishing nearly 100 years ago. The painting, titled Portrait of Frulein Lieser, was ...

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 ...

In a striking 1917 portrait by Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), Fräulein Lieser wears a bright blue cloak adorned with orange, yellow, and pink flowers against a fiery red background. This vibrant cacophony ...

Barbra Streisand said on Instagram on Thursday, Nov. 20 that she regrets selling a Gustav Klimt painting she once bought for $17,000 Her post comes two days after another Klimt painting, "Portrait of ...

Sotheby’s will auction the last portrait by Gustav Klimt, the 1917 painting Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), with the expectation that it will sell for over £65 million ($80 million), a record ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a record-setting $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building. The painting of a well-dressed woman now ranks ...