Austrian symbolist artist Gustav Klimt’s Enthusiastic Woman sold for £85.3 million ($108.7 million) at Sotheby’s, making it the most expensive piece of art at European auctions. It is reported on the website. Sotheby’s.
The portrait was created in 1917-1918. Its estimated cost was £65m ($82.8m).
Prior to that, the record among works sold at auction in Europe belonged to the bronze sculpture “Walking Man I” by Swiss Alberto Giacometti. It was sold for £65m ($104.3m at the exchange rate at the time) in 2010.
It was previously known that Princess Diana had a red and white sweater. to be sold auction house Sotheby’s in New York on September 7, 2023.
Before reportedThe 300-year-old painting “Two Angels Nurturing Saint Sebastian” by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was reportedly auctioned for over $7.6 million at Sotheby’s.