A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has sold for $236.4 million (€204m), breaking a record for a modern art piece which was previously ...

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(AP) - 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 ...

NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...

In an attempt to save herself, Elisabeth Lederer made up a story that Klimt, who was not Jewish and died in 1918, was her father. It helped that the artist spent years working meticulously on her ...