Gustav Klimt has returned to global headlines after one of his rare full-length portraits sold for an extraordinary $236.4 million (around £180 million) at Sotheby's in New York, positioning the work as the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
The sale of 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' has drawn renewed attention to the Austrian painter more than a century after his death, raising questions about the forces driving the art market and the enduring cultural pull of Klimt's ornamental style.
