Gustav Klimt artwork stolen by Nazis, nearly wrecked in WWII sells for shocking $236M. Why 2026 sets up great for art investors (and how to cash in)

The “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $236.4 million (1), beaten only by Leonardo da Vinci's ...
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This Fabulous Gustav Klimt Portrait Is Set to Smash Auction Records. Here’s the Incredible Story Behind It

A masterpiece by Gustav Klimt, 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' will be auctioned at Sotheby's on November 18. Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16), detail. Photo: courtesy of ...
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Confessed Thief in 1997 Gustav Klimt Heist Claims Canvas Will Soon Be Returned

An unsolved art heist, nearly two decades old, may have a happy ending in sight, reports the BBC. The case is that of Gustav Klimt’s The Lady, from the collection of the Ricci-Oddi gallery in Piacenza ...
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A Gustav Klimt painting is now the most expensive piece of modern art sold at auction. The fascinating history behind the $236 million 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer.'

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 ...
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Why is Gustav Klimt's The Kiss so important?

The city was the crossroads for individuals who would instigate various convulsions to come: Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, whose concept of the unconscious utterly altered our understanding ...
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Gustav Klimt painting Lady with a Fan fetches $108M, a European record

A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for $108.4 million, making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — sold to a ...
The New York Times

Gustav Klimt

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 ...
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Klimt's 'Lady with a Fan' sells for over $100 million

The Sotheby's auction for Gustav Klimt's final completed work sparked a 10-minute bidding war that far exceeded its initial $80 million price tag. The last portrait Austrian artist Gustav Klimt ...
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Immersing Yourself in the Works of Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion is a show at the newly opened Hall des Lumiéres, a new permanent immersive art located at the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. (all photos Jasmine Liu/Hyperallergic) In ...
New York Post

Gustav Klimt’s paintings saved a woman from the Nazis

Turns out Adele Bloch-Bauer wasn’t the only golden gal in Gustav Klimt’s life. Though she was the only one he rendered twice, the painter, who liked to go commando under his artist’s smock, depicted a ...
The New York Times

Gustav Klimt

Responses to an essay by a gay man who no longer craves “the comforts of normalcy.” Also: The perfect game; Trump and evangelicals; art in private hands; voices of younger women. The price was the ...