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Gustav Klimt, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917-1918. Courtesy of Sotheby’s London Gustav Klimt’s Lady with a Fan Sells for £85.3M, Breaking European Record The auction in London for the Austrian artist’s final painting achieved the highest price ever in Europe for a work of art. The Guardian > Amsterdam Hermitage Museum Rebrands
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Causing a stir of excitement in the art market, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), the last portrait painted by Gustav Klimt, sold for £85.3 million (US$108.4 million) at Sotheby’s London on 27 June. The result was a record high for any work of art ever sold at auction in Europe and also one
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By Kelly GrovierFeatures correspondent Alamy Left on Gustav Klimt’s easel when the artist died in 1918, Lady with a Fan is the most expensive painting auctioned in Europe, selling for £85.3m – but what makes it a masterpiece? Kelly Grovier explores its appeal. The Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is best-known for the immortalising opulence
A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold to a Hong Kong collector for £85.3 million (US$108.4 million), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) sold to Patti Wong, an art adviser representing a Hong Kong client, for a hammer price of £74 million