A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 million at Sotheby's on November 18. The painting, made at some point ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.

Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

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 ...

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A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction. The Austrian painter’s work Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $236 ...