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
AP | | Posted by Parmita Uniyal A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — sold to a buyer in the room at Sotheby’s in London after a
The painting Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) by Austrian artist is most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has sold for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4m), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) was sold on
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Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917–18, became the most expensive painting ever to sell at auction in Europe during the Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, after it hammered at an astounding £74 million ($94.3 million). With fees, the total price achieved exceeded £85.3 million ($108 million). Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man I
A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — sold to a buyer in the room at Sotheby’s in London after a 10-minute bidding war for a hammer price