A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 ...

Vivian Warby A Gustav Klimt portrait made history this week when it sold for an astonishing $236.4 million (around R4 billion) at an auction in New York, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ...

Later in the evening, an 18-karat-gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana ...

The Klimt results, part of a trove of works from the recently deceased cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder, garnered multiple round ...

What the heart-pumping evening, which saw many pieces attract multiple bidders and sell above their presale estimates, means ...

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is now the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction. How did Sotheby’s pull off ...

"Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which played a role in protecting the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust, sold ...

A Gustav Klimt painting has become the most expensive piece of modern art ever after it was sold at auction. On Tuesday (18 ...

Painted between 1914 and 1916, the nearly two-metre portrait belongs to Klimt’s late period, when he began drifting away from the gold-laden glamour of his “Golden Period”. Instead of metallic ...

Gustav Klimt's Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer painting sold for more than $236 million, becoming the second-most-expensive work of ...