A painting by Gustav Klimt (Vienna, 1862-1918) has broken all records and become the most expensive work of modern art and the second most expensive in the history of art. It is the painting Portrait of Elisabeth LedererThe painting, which the Austrian artist created between 1914 and 1916, depicts the young heiress and daughter of Klimt's employers dressed in a Chinese kimono. The work sold for €203.56 million at an auction held at Sotheby's in New York.

Another of the surprises of the edition of the Tefaf art fair, in Maastricht, It is a portrait that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painted in 1897 of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, which had been missing since 1938. It is for sale by the Austrian gallery Wienerroither & Kohlbacher for 15 million euros, one of the highest prices. The history of the painting is marked by Nazism: the owner in the 1930s, Ernestine Klein, of Jewish origin, had to flee Vienna and took refuge in Monaco. Upon returning home, she realized that the painting and other possessions had been stolen.