MOSCOW, June 28 Gustav Klimt's painting «Lady with a Fan» was sold for 85.3 million pounds (108.7 million dollars), reported on the website of the auction house Sotheby's.
This is a new auction record for a work of art in Europe and for the work of the artist. Also, the canvas became the second most expensive among the portraits ever sold at auction.
«Lady with a Fan» is Klimt's last portrait. The identity of the woman depicted on it has not yet been identified. Among its previous owners are Klimt's friend and patron Erwin Böhl, the collector Rudolf Leopold. The latter sold the painting in 1994 for $12 million.
Klimt is among the masters whose works are purchased for nine-figure sums. In 2006, Ronald Lauder, businessman and son of the founder of a major cosmetics firm, bought Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $135 million. In 2017, Oprah Winfrey said she sold a «Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II» to a Chinese entrepreneur for $150 million, Bloomberg reported. for one ruble.