The price was the highest for a public sale in Europe, beating the $104.3 million that a Giacometti sculpture brought in 2010.
Tag: Klimt, Gustav
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Ronald S. Lauder Reaches Agreement on Klimt Painting With Jewish Heirs
Under the agreement, Mr. Lauder restituted the painting and then repurchased it from the relatives of an art collector who fled Europe in 1941 to avoid Nazi persecution.
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How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.
It’s not easy to stop a determined climate protester, museum directors say, even as they fear for their masterpieces.
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Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest
It’s been a closely guarded secret which masterworks in the Microsoft co-founder’s collection will be auctioned at Christie’s in November. Here, highlights of a billionaire’s bounty.