The “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $236.4 million (1), beaten only by Leonardo da Vinci's ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...

A painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, believed to have been lost since 1925, has been found and will be auctioned in April, the im Kinsky auction house announced Thursday. The auctioneer ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a record-setting $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building. The painting of a well-dressed woman now ranks ...

A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction. The Austrian painter’s work Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $236 ...