Barbra Streisand once bought a Gustav Klimt painting for $17,000. She sold it nearly three decades ago for an undisclosed ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling ...

Gustav Klimt painted the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer between 1914 and 1916 for some of his biggest patrons, August and ...

The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage ...

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

In its catalogue note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and ...

The painting, titled “El sueño (La cama),” surpassed the record held by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.” ...

Tom Wright-Piersanti, Lyna Bentahar and the staff of the Morning newsletter compiled this week’s quiz.

A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record ...

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