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Last portrait by Gustav Klimt sells for record £85.3 million

The work has gone to a collector from Hong Kong.

The Independent UK

Gustav Klimt’s Lady with a Fan sells for £85.3m, breaking European record

The auction in London for the Austrian artist’s final painting achieved the highest price ever in Europe for a work of art

The Guardian - UK

Klimt painting sets European record with $94 million price tag at Sotheby's auction in London

A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has for 74 million pounds ($94.35 million) in London, making it the most expensive painting ever auctioned in Europe

The Independent UK

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Watch live: Gustav Klimt’s ‘Lady With A Fan’ expected to sell for millions at auction

Watch live as the last portrait Gustav Klimt painted, Dame Mit Facher (Lady With A Fan), goes up for auction at Sotheby’s in London.

The Independent UK

Gustav Klimt’s final portrait expected to sell for up to £65m at auction this month

‘Dame Mit Facher (Lady With A Fan)’ will go up for auction later this month

The Independent UK

Last portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt may sell for up to £65m at auction

Dame Mit Facher (Lady With A Fan), described as a ‘technical tour de force’, will be offered at a Sotheby’s auction on June 27.

The Independent UK

Klimt portrait 'Lady with a Fan' up for sale with $80M estimate

A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt could become the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe when it is auctioned later this month

The Independent UK

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Most expensive painting ever offered for auction in Europe goes under the hammer

The most expensive painting ever offered for auction in Europe goes under the hammer in London this month.

Evening Standard

Last portrait by Gustav Klimt expected to fetch £65m at London auction

‘Heartfelt ode to absolute beauty’ was on Austrian artist’s easel when he died unexpectedly in 1918

The Guardian - UK

Madness frontman Suggs’ Tufnell Park townhouse is for sale for £1.5 million

Compared to other musicians’ homes to recently hit the market, the Madness frontman’s pad is relatively sedate

Evening Standard

Missed out on Vermeer? Try these arty gems across Europe instead

With the Amsterdam blockbuster all sold out, our writer picks 10 alternative arty must-sees in Europe – all reachable by train

The Guardian - UK

No Vermeer, no problem — 9 fabulous European art escapes

Didn’t snag tickets to Amsterdam’s sold-out Vermeer exhibition? No stress — get your arty fix at other top-tier European galleries instead

Evening Standard

The Frameless digital art exhibition puts you inside iconic paintings – I'm inspired

Frameless brings art to life.

Creative Bloq

Vienna 'few degrees' exhibit tilts paintings to call for climate action

A Vienna museum where climate activists recently attacked the glass screen shielding a Gustav Klimt painting has responded with an exhibit entitled 'A Few Degrees More' that tilts works to draw attention to the need for action on climate change.

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Holocaust victim's heirs to pay Austria after mix-up over returned Klimt

The family of a Jewish woman who was forced to sell a Gustav Klimt painting in 1938 to survive have agreed to pay Austria $11.3 million after a mix-up over the painting concerned meant the wrong one was returned to them, Austria said on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Ready to plunge in? The rise and rise of immersive art

Thousands are flocking to hi-tech shows of work by Van Gogh, Dalí and, from next month, David Hockney, in London. What makes these exhibitions so fascinating – and popular?

Evening Standard

Best wall art to hang in the living room in modern and unique styles

Bring those tired old walls to life

Evening Standard

Climate Protests: ‘Last Generation Austria’ throw oil at a Klimt painting

Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid. Members of the group Letzte Generation Österreich — Last Generation Austria — tweeted on Tuesday that they had targeted the 1915 painting Death and Life at Vienna’s Leopold Museum to protest the…

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Climate activists attack famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with black oily liquid

Members of the Austrian group said they had targeted the 1915 painting in Vienna to protest against their government's use of fossil energies, with one activist pushed away by a museum guard

Evening Standard

Climate activists in Austria deface Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life painting

Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid.

The Independent UK

Climate activists throw liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna

Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting's frame

Radio France Internationale

Eco-activists pour black liquid on Klimt masterpiece in Vienna's Leopold Museum

Climate activists on Tuesday poured a black liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's masterpiece Death and Life at Vienna's Leopold Museum. This attack is the lastest in a series of attacks in major European museums in recent weeks.

Reuters

Climate activists attack glass screen protecting Klimt painting in Vienna

Climate-change activists on Tuesday smeared and glued one of their hands to a glass screen protecting a Gustav Klimt painting in a Vienna museum to protest against oil drilling, on a day when entry was free thanks to an oil firm's sponsorship.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Paul Allen's Art Collection Tops $1 bn at Christie's

Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. At the end of the night Wednesday, five paintings entered the exclusive…

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Paul Allen's art collection tops $1bn at Christie's

NEW YORK: Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic US$1 billion on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.

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