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Klimt's "Lady with a Fan" Sells for a European Auction Record at Sotheby's
- Gustav Klimt's Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), his final portrait, sold for $108.7 million (£85.3 million) at Sotheby's in London on 27 June 2023[1][2]
- A Hong Kong collector won the painting after a ten-minute bidding war[1]
- The sale made it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in Europe, beating the record set by Klimt's own Birch Forest, which sold for $104.6 million at Christie's on 9 November 2022[1]
- The portrait, of an unidentified sitter possibly the model Johanna Staude, was still on the easel in Klimt's Vienna studio when he died in 1918[1]
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- [1]90%heni.com/news/article/gustav-klimt-dame-mit-facher-lady-with-a-fan-2023-06-27heni.com· Posted Sep 25, 2026· Starts Jun 27, 2023 ✓· 99% of score
Heni's auction-history recap states the painting 'sold for $108.7m (£85.31m) at Sotheby's in London on June 27, 2023', which Al Jazeera's[2] report ('sold on Tuesday') independently corroborates.
- [2]84%Klimt painting sets European record with $108m price tagaljazeera.com· Published Jun 28, 2023· 1% of score
Reports the painting 'sold on Tuesday' (27 June 2023) at 'Sotheby's in London' for '85.3 million pounds ($108.4m)' with fees, against a hammer price of £74 million ($94.35m).[1]
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