J. Patrice Marandel was born and raised in Paris. He recalls that growing up, “My family never lacked food. I do not remember ever being hungry, but I remember stretching supplies because they were hard to come by.… I remember shortages of flour and butter and just about everything else, and of electricity that plunged
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Business By Associated Press Published June 27, 2023, 7:26 p.m. ET A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for $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