A Gustav Klimt portrait has sold for $236.4m, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. The ...

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 ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust. It broke a record at auction previously set by an Andy Warhol potrait of Marilyn Monroe. A ...

A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The ...

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 ...

Dana Becker has been a sports writer in Iowa since 2000, writing for The Fort Dodge Messenger, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Cedar Rapids Gazette and others. Dana resides in northcentral Iowa and started ...

Boris Becker has announced the birth of a daughter with his wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro. The tennis icon, 58, and his wife, 34, welcomed their newborn on Friday, just a day before Becker ...

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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 ...

Tennis legend Boris Becker has confirmed the arrival of his daughter with wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro. The former Wimbledon champion, 58, and his partner, 34, welcomed their baby girl on Friday, ...

On Tuesday night, the Breuer Building played host to something that would have been unthinkable during the decades it spent housing The Whitney: its first auction. But when I was walking through the ...