Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

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This Klimt painting, which hung in the billionaire Leonard A. Lauder's home for decades, is now the most expensive work of modern art to ever sell at auction. - Courtesy Sotheby's What do a notorious ...

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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.

Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker leads bidding for Gustav Klimt's “Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer” (1914–16) (image courtesy Sotheby’s New York) Gustav Klimt’s 1914–16 portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold ...