Post-Civil War America was a graceless murk of brownstones, soft-coal soot and ungainly walnut furniture. It was Victorian without even the fun of having royalty, and Critic Lewis Mumford summed ...

“We are the authors of the theft of Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, and we have given a gift to the city by returning the canvas,” the men, who are in their 60s, wrote.

Lady with a Fan was the last portrait Gustav Klimt completed before his death in 1918. via REUTERS It was last sold in 1994, going for $11.6 million at an auction in New York.

Lady with a Fan is among the very few portraits by Klimt, a leading figure of the Vienna Secession art movement, to be owned privately. It was last sold in 1994, when it fetched $11.6m (£9m).

A painting believed to be a Gustav Klimt stolen almost 23 years ago has been discovered in a wall of the gallery it went missing from.. Portrait of a Lady, one of the world's most sought-after ...