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Klimt's 'Lady With a Fan' Sets Auction Records, Sells for $108.4 Million.

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Source: The New York Times
Klimt's 'Lady With a Fan' Sets Auction Records, Sells for $108.4 Million.
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Gustav Klimt's "Lady With a Fan" sold for $108.4 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for the artist and becoming the highest price for a public sale in Europe. The painting inspired 10 minutes of competition from three Asian bidders before selling to Hong Kong-based art adviser Patti Wong. The painting depicts an unidentified young woman against a backdrop of opulent Oriental textiles and was one of two unfinished paintings photographed on easels in Klimt's Vienna studio shortly after the artist died of Spanish flu.

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