A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has sold for $236.4 million (€204m), breaking a record for a modern art piece which was previously held by an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe – which sold for $195 million (€168m) in 2022.
Klimt's "Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer" (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer) sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York. Sotheby’s declined to share the identity of the portrait's buyer.
