Who Is the Heir Laying Claim to the Controversial Klimt That Just Sold for $32 Million?
A new potential heir of a portrait by Gustav Klimt, recently sold at auction for $32 million, has filed a claim to the long-lost painting.
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A new potential heir of a portrait by Gustav Klimt, recently sold at auction for $32 million, has filed a claim to the long-lost painting.
After nearly a century, a Gustav Klimt painting, 'Portrait of Miss Lieser,' has resurfaced and fetched a record price of 30 million euros at an Austrian auction
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 subject and previous ownership.
A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros (US$32 million).
But there are unanswered questions about Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, including what happened to it during the Nazi era.