The costliest portray ever offered at public sale stays the Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased for US$450 million in 2017.
“Full-length society portraits of this spectacular scale and from Klimt’s pinnacle interval (1912-17) are exceptionally uncommon; the bulk in main museum collections,” Sotheby’s stated of Tuesday’s sale.
“The portray supplied this night was one among solely two such commissioned portraits remaining in personal arms,” it added in a press release.
For Klimt, the previous public sale document for his work was held by Woman with a Fan, which offered for £85.3 million (US$108.8 million) in London in 2023.
