She abandoned fashion for music for a while, but returned, ever faithful to a New Wave palette and punk spirit. “If you had to define a British design sensibility, it would be Pam Hogg,” said Stephen ...

For one top Sotheby’s executive, this year's auction season feels like destiny. “This is the season I’ve waited for my whole life,” Lisa Dennison told NBC News, standing near the radiant Gustav Klimt ...

A storied Gustav Klimt painting sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday night, setting a new auction record for the turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese artist. It is the most ...

Leonard Lauder, the billionaire businessman who helped turn his family’s cosmetics company into a global beauty empire, has died. The 92-year-old Lauder's death came on Saturday, June 14, at his home ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold for an astonishing $236.4 million Tuesday, making it the most expensive auction sale of a work of modern art. The price also means it is the ...

When Leonard A. Lauder, the visionary beauty-industry executive, philanthropist, and art collector passed away in June, questions arose about the fate of his extraordinary art collection. The answer ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait from Leonard Lauder's estate sold for $236.4 million at auction. The Lauder estate art sale brought in a total of $706 million, far exceeding its $400 million estimate. Country ...

Update: During a Sotheby’s evening auction on November 18 at the Breuer, Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold for $236.36 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of Modern Art at ...

On Tuesday night in New York, a three-plus-hour marathon resulted in $706 million in sales, the highest total for an evening lineup in Sotheby’s history. The biggest fireworks came as 24 lots were ...