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.

Gustav Klimt has returned to global headlines after one of his rare full-length portraits sold for an extraordinary $236.4 million (around £180 million) at Sotheby's in New York, positioning the work ...

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 ...

The bang of an auctioneer's hammer at Sotheby's London on Tuesday brought a 10-minute bidding battle to an end and set a new record for the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe. Austrian ...

When it goes to auction later this month, Gustav Klimt’s final artwork could become the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The Viennese artist completed Lady With Fan just before his death ...

The Viennese painter’s portrait of a West African prince was owned by a Jewish family who fled the Nazi occupation. It was then taken to Hungary, which has now moved to block a sale by an Austrian ...

His Mona Lisa: One of Klimt's very last portraits of Viennese beauties, Dame Mit Fächer (Lady With A Fan), 1918, was found resting on an easel upon his death in 1918. Sotheby's has pulled together a ...

This week: the intrigue swirling around Dame mit Fächer, the flood-proof Hamptons art trade, the fairs getting small to get ahead, and much more. Helena Newman, auctioneering Gustav Klimt’s ...

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 ...

The collector’s trove of 55 works, including Klimt, Matisse and Munch, will be auctioned in November. By Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF ...