Klimt's Portrait Sells for Record-Breaking Price
Update: 2025-11-19
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Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, a Klimt masterpiece, shatters auction records with a staggering $236.4 million sale. This full-length portrait, created during Klimts Golden Period, showcases a more subtle, psychological intensity. Its history is equally captivating, involving Nazi seizure, a hidden life, and a false claim of paternity by Elisabeth Lederer, who used the connection to protect herself from persecution.
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