An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has become one of the most talked about artworks of the year after selling for 236.4 million US dollars, making it the second most expensive painting ever ...

In fact, I’ll go further. So eager was Fox to make his revisionist case for modern British art that almost every statement boggled the mind. Did Wyndham Lewis really possess “one of the most poisonous ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

Across more than seven decades of innovation, Picasso reinvented painting, moving from academic realism through cubism, surrealism, and radical figuration. This has translated into extraordinary ...

An arresting self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, featuring the artist slumbering beneath a tangle of vines in a carved canopy bed with a skeleton reclining above her, set records at a Sotheby's auction on ...