Nagging questions remain about the Nazi-era ownership of "Island in the Attersee," a Gustav Klimt waterscape that sold for $53 million Tuesday in a Sotheby's bidding war. AFP via Getty Images ...

The death of Klimt’s brother and father, both in 1892, had a profound influence on his work. He began to reject the classical style that had earned him acclaim in favor of a more personal approach.

The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction Tuesday, when it sold for a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London.

The last portrait painted by Gustav Klimt will carry the highest estimate ever put on a painting in Europe or the UK when it appears at Sotheby’s in London this June, pitched at in excess of £65m.

Gustav Klimt's final portrait, "Lady with a Fan," sold for a record-breaking $108.4 million. By Emily Burack Published: Jun 27, 2023 1:26 PM EDT Save Article brandstaetter images // Getty Images ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Miss Lieser", a painting of a young woman left unfinished when the Austrian artist died, sold at auction on Wednesday for $32 million despite open questions about its ...

Gustav Klimt was not a perfect painter, and T.J. Clark has reason to detect a certain artificiality in his oeuvre, an over-reliance on surreal, ersatz eroticism and extravagant decorativism, a ...

Update 4/26/24: "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" by Gustav Klimt sold at auction this week for $32 million to an anonymous bidder from Hong Kong. The original story on the painting and auction, below.

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser," which went missing after its owners fled Austria after 1930, was auctioned off for $32 million.

Klimt’s ‘Lady With a Fan’ Brings $108.4 Million, Auction Record for the Artist The price was the highest for a public sale in Europe, beating the $104.3 million that a Giacometti sculpture ...

Google Arts & Culture recently launched an online hub, “Klimt vs. Klimt: The Man of Contradictions,” devoted to the Austrian Art-Nouveau master Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).