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  2. news.artnet.com › market › oprah-sells-famed-gustavOprah Sells Famed Gustav Klimt Portrait for $150 Million

    Feb 8, 2017 · Oprah Winfrey made a pretty penny selling Gustav Klimt ‘s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) for $150 million in 2016, reports Katya Kazakina for Bloomberg. The buyer is allegedly an unidentified Chinese collector, who pulled the trigger on the purchase over the summer.

  3. money.com › the-surprising-connection-betweenOprah Winfrey Sells Painting for $150 Million | Money

    Feb 9, 2017 · Yesterday the art world was stunned by a report that Oprah Winfrey was, for ten years, the owner of Gustav Klimt’s second-most-famous portrait of the lady in gold, “Adele Bloch-Bauer II.” According to Bloomberg , Winfrey reportedly bought the painting anonymously in 2006, when Christie’s sold it at auction for $87.9 million.

  4. www.guinnessworldrecords.com › world-recordsMost expensive painting by Klimt sold at a private sale

    The following November, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was bought by Oprah Winfrey at Christie’s New York, USA. Klimt’s Lady with a Fan (1917) – the last portrait he ever painted – fetched £85.3 million ($107.6 million) at Sotheby's in London, UK, in June 2023, making it the most valuable work of art to be sold at auction in Europe.

  5. www.christies.com › en › storiesAdele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt’s ‘woman in gold’ | Christie's

    Jun 15, 2016 · In June 2006 cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder purchased Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $135 million — then the highest price ever paid for a painting — for display in Manhattan’s Neue Galerie, a sale brokered by Christie’s.

  6. www.christies.com › en › lotStudy for the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II - Christie's

    Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold as Property Formerly in the Collection of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, Christie's New York, 8 November 2006, lot 54 ($87,936,000, sold after sale).

  7. news.artnet.com › art-world › gust-klimt-100-millionHow Checkbook Art History Elevated Gustav Klimt to the $100 ...

    Apr 6, 2015 · Nine years ago, when cosmetics magnate and top collector Ronald Lauder, co-founder of the Neue Galerie, shelled out a reported $135 million for Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), many in the art world were stunned (see Why Ronald Lauder is Right About Nazi-Looted Art in Museums).

  8. www.nbcnews.com › news › us-newsOprah Sells Gustav Klimt Painting for $150 Million - NBC News

    Feb 12, 2017 · The OWN network founder bought "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" in 2006 for $87.9 million, but Winfrey decided to sell the painting for $150 million after its value skyrocketed by 71 percent,...