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The 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) portrait, painted over three years between 1914 and 1916, depicts the daughter of one of Vienna’s wealthiest families adorned in an East Asian emperor’s cloak. It is one of two full-length portraits by the Austrian artist that remain privately owned.
(AP Photo, File) 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 following 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.
(Sotheby’s via AP) Sotheby’s has made public it will auction a solid gold toilet, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan called “America.” The auction is set for Nov. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled “America,” by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R.
This image provided by Sotheby’s shows Gustav Klimt’s “Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer” (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), which sold for $236.4 million at auction Tuesday, Nov. (Sotheby’s via AP) This image provided by Sotheby’s shows Gustav Klimt’s “Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer” (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), which sold for $236.4 million at auction Tuesday, Nov.
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at an auction where a solid gold toilet additionally sold for $12.1 million. A gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan satirizing the ultrarich fetched $12.1 million, including taxes and fees, at a Sotheby’s auction.
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