Gustav Klimt

Auction houses celebrate bumper year of blockbuster art sales

Deaths and divorces of major collectors fuel record £14.3bn in sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

28, Dec, 2022 @2:06 PM

Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’

Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charity

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

05, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM

Gustav Klimt theft: police question gallery owner's widow

Woman linked to Italian gallery from where painting vanished questioned over diary entry

Angela Giuffrida Rome correspondent

11, Feb, 2020 @2:39 PM

In pictures: The greatest art heists in history

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady has been found – in the same gallery it was taken from. At least it wasn’t cut up by a mafia boss or hauled aboard a pirate ship

Nosheen Iqbal and Tim Jonze

22, Jan, 2020 @2:07 PM

Klimt art thieves confess to stealing then returning painting

Portrait of a Lady was hidden in same Italian gallery from which it went missing in 1997

Angela Giuffrida Rome correspondent

21, Jan, 2020 @2:27 PM

Painting found hidden in Italian gallery wall may be stolen Klimt

Portrait of a Lady, missing for 23 years, believed found by gardener in secret cavity

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

11, Dec, 2019 @1:28 PM

Klimt / Schiele review – their obsessions were mutual

Ferociously brilliant young Egon Schiele and established master Gustav Klimt share the spotlight in this compelling Viennese double bill

Laura Cumming

04, Nov, 2018 @8:00 AM

Klimt / Schiele review – the double act who saw the profound in the pornographic

Royal Academy, London
This sumptuous collection of drawings reveals how the master and his protege caused a scandal by bringing sex and death into collision

Jonathan Jones

31, Oct, 2018 @12:01 AM

Selfie Kiss makes it easier to experience the real thing | Brief letters

Brief letters: Selfie Kiss | Finding companionship | Al Capone and Donald Trump | Predictive text | Double entendres

Letters

08, May, 2018 @5:00 PM

Nazi-looted painting to be auctioned as owners' heirs fail to halt sale

Auction house Im Kinsky accused of moral bankruptcy for selling Bartholomeus van der Helst’s Portrait of a Man despite disputed ownership

Kate Connolly Berlin

23, Apr, 2017 @11:34 AM

Klimt sells for £48m as auction houses hope the good times are back

After a difficult 2016, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are desperate for a return to what was a booming market in 2015

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

02, Mar, 2017 @12:38 AM

Klimt and Basquiat sales could help Sotheby's smash London record

Auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art next month has combined pre-sale estimate of nearly £400m