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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Gustav klimt portrait sells for second highest auction price ever | History Defined

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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 of Elisabeth Lederer, a six-foot oil painting made between 1914-1916, depicts 20-year-old Elisabeth Lederer, daughter of prominent Viennese art patrons August and Serena Lederer, dressed in a Chinese-style dragon robe in a shimmering decorative setting.

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