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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait Of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) Sold In N.Y On 11/18/25 For $236.4M, Becoming The 2nd-Costliest Artwork Only To Da Vinci’s $450.3M Salvator Mundi. It Also Set A Modern Art Sale Record, Topping Warhol’s $195M Marilyn; Became Sotheby’s Costliest Sale; Was Nazi-Looted, Rescued In 1948, & Later Owned By Estée Lauder Heir.

Gustav Klimt painting becomes second most expensive artwork sold at auction

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2emm4737zo?

The portrait of Austrian heiress Elisabeth Lederer was looted by the Nazis and almost destroyed.