A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.

Including a Warhol Marilyn and Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud, plus Klimt, Rothko, and Picasso, these ten works reflect the range of artists represented at the highest levels of the market.

In 1901, the Austrian parliament convened its first-ever cultural debate. The subject was the enormous allegoric paintings Gustav Klimt had been commissioned to paint for the ceiling of University of ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has sold for $236.4 million (€204m), breaking a record for a modern art piece which was previously ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...

Gustav Klimt’s sumptuously romantic masterpiece 1916-7 Bildnis einer Frau (Portrait of a Lady), bought by the famous Italian art patron Guiseppe Ricci Oddi eight years after it was completed, in 1925, ...

One hundred years after his death, Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) is finally making his first trip to California, for an exhibition at the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. The ...

A 1918 masterpiece by Gustav Klimt that was on the artist’s easel at the time he died unexpectedly sold for £85.3 million (US$108.4 million) to a Hong Kong collector at Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday, ...

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 ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...