The final work by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has fetched €86 million at auction setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. ADVERTISEMENT Gustav Klimt’s final masterpiece has broken the European auction record by selling for £74 million, or €86 million, at Sotheby’s in London. The celebrated Austrian symbolist’s “Dame
LONDON (AP) — 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
Courtesy Sotheby’s 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
To some fanfare but little surprise, the last portrait ever painted by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record auction price in Europe, fetching £85.3m (with fees) at Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary art evening sale in London this evening (27 June). Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) (1917), executed the year before the
By Jasmine Andersson BBC News 27 June 2023 Image caption, Lady with a Fan is the last portrait Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted before he died Gustav Klimt’s final painting has sold for £85.3m ($108.4m), making it the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe. Lady with a Fan (Dame mit
Klimt’s art-historical importance as the leader of the turn-of-the-century Vienna Secession movement, and the decorative sumptuousness of his paintings, have always made him a highly valued artist. But those values soared into a different dimension in 2006 when the New York-based cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder paid $135 million for the artist’s gold-drenched 1907 portrait
From the Piel Collection, this lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir led the auction at $18,750. Review by Z.G. Burnett; Images Courtesy of Capsule NEW YORK CITY — Capsule’s American and European Art sale on June 15 was a showcase of fine art from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, highlighting names that have endured in popular culture
Update, 6/27/23: Gustav Klimt’s “Lady with a Fan” sold for $108.4 million, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of art, and most expensive painting, ever sold in Europe. The last portrait Gustav Klimt ever painted, “Dame mit Fächer” (which translates to “Lady with a Fan”) will go up for auction by Sotheby’s at
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