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This week in The Back Room: the intrigue swirling around Dame mit Fächer, the flood-proof Hamptons art trade, and more.

Sold at auction by one shadowy entity and purchased by another, will the masterwork's fate ever truly be known?

It seems that critics are unwilling to forget the Nazi-tainted provenance of Horten's jewelry, or forgive the auction house.

London, June 14, 2023 — A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt could become the most expensive painting ever

This makes the painting the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe.

Lady with a Fan sold to a buyer at Sothebys in London after a 10-minute bidding war.

LONDON (AP) – A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold on Tuesday for GBP85.3 million (USD108.4 million), making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. Dame mit Fächer – Lady with a Fan – sold to a buyer in the room at Sotheby’s in London after a 10-minute bidding war for […]

Post-Brexit London regained some credibility as the capital of Europe’s high-value art market on Tuesday when a radiant portrait by Gustav Klimt,

Considered one of the greatest decorative painters of the 20th century, Klimt is perhaps best known for his oil-on-canvas painting 'The Kiss', with two lovers in an embrace. The piece that was sold recently is titled 'Lady with a Fan'.

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