A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust. It broke a record at auction previously set by an Andy Warhol potrait of Marilyn Monroe. A ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait has sold for $236.4m, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. The ...

A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has sold for £179.7m, making it the most valuable art ever sold at Sotheby’s and the second most expensive work of art in auction history. Klimt’s Portrait ...

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...

An anonymous buyer paid nine figures for Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' at a Sotheby's auction on Nov. 18. Streisand once owned a different Klimt Eric Andersson joined PEOPLE as a senior ...

An art handler stands in front of Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby's on November 7. Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images A Gustav Klimt painting sold at ...

On Tuesday night, the Breuer Building played host to something that would have been unthinkable during the decades it spent housing The Whitney: its first auction. But when I was walking through the ...