Klimt Painting Sets Record

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed)
Jun 19th 2006 at 6:06PM

Eclipsing the record set in 2004 by a Pablo Picasso painting, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I has sold for $135 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting. It was purchased by billionaire Ronald S. Lauder, the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, and it will be displayed in his small, New York museum, the Neue Galerie. The painting was taken from the Bloch-Bauer's home in 1938 by Nazis and was sold by her niece, Maria Altmann, who has only had it since the beginning of this year, after looted artwork was returned to relatives of the original owners.

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Michael Jun 26th 2006 11:12AM

Hi,

does anybody know about average prices for high-quality replicas for klimt-paintings? A copy of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I will be about 299 € measuring 100x98 cm from a german art-shop: http://www.wooop.de/app?service=external/Painting&sp=l3581

I look forward any alernative tips to accountATcosmic-rayDOTde