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

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio ...

What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Gustav Klimt work have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first ...

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard ...

The auction house’s debut at the Breuer was defined by Gustav Klimt’s late portrait soaring to $236.4 million, anchoring the ...

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

The top lot of the week was a Klimt portrait from the collection of Leonard Lauder at Sotheby's. It set a new auction record ...

At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction. An ...

A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction.

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