Lost Gustav Klimt painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna
by Philip Oltermann European culture editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6MAJ7)
Unfinished Portrait of Fraulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject
A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for 30m (26m) at an auction in Vienna.
Entitled Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists in Europe, and a year before his death.
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