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At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million.
A total of $304.6 million of art traded hands at Sotheby's new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York on Thursday.
The auction house’s debut at the Breuer was defined by Gustav Klimt’s late portrait soaring to $236.4 million, anchoring the $527.5 million white-glove sale of the Leonard A. Lauder
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is now the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction. How did Sotheby’s pull off the impossible? Who, more importantly, bought it?
What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Gustav Klimt work have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday in a buzzy, record-breaking night.
At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.
Sotheby's sold an astonishing $706 million worth of art in New York on Tuesday night. Katya Kazakina crunched the numbers.
The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder
The auction house makes itself at home in the landmark Breuer building.
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