The painting sold this week was the last portrait Gustav Klimt completed before his death in 1918.
sold Tuesday for 85.3 million pounds , 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 a hammer price of 74 million pounds . The higher final figure includes a charge on top of the sale price known as the buyer's premium.It also beat the previous European auction record of $104.3 million — 65 million pounds at the time — including buyer's premium paid for Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “Walking Man I” at Sotheby’s in 2010.
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