Gustav Klimt portrait that spared its subject from Nazis breaks modern art record with $236M sale
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 Lederer” sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York, where the flashiest item of the night was a solid gold, fully functioning toilet that went for $12. 1 million. The 6-foot-tall (1. 8-meter-tall) portrait, painted over three years between 1914 and 1916, depicts the of one...
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