Schiller took this photo in April 1969, the day Streisand bought Ria Munk on her Deathbed for $17,000, “which seemed like a lot of money at the time,” she wrote. The decorated performer had purchased ...

An anonymous buyer paid nine figures for Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' at a Sotheby's auction on Nov. 18. Streisand once owned a different Klimt Eric Andersson joined PEOPLE as a senior ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7.

A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...

(CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...