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Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction. The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/19/gustav-klimt-portrait-sells-for-2364m-making-it-the-second-most-expensive-artwork-sold-at-auction?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu