Gustav Klimt’s ‘Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)’ achieved $86 million in the Leonard A. Lauder, Collector Evening Auction, led by auctioneer @ob1london. Painted in the summer of 1908, the work was one of three oil paintings by Klimt offered from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, standing out as a radiant and daring vision of nature. | Sotheby's

Artwork by Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," became the most valuable work of modern art to ever sell at auction, reaching $236.4 million to gasps and applause from the room during the 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby's first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York. It was also the most expensive work of art ever sold by the auction house globally. Read more: https://cnn.it/3LNQeBJ | CNN

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