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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A trio of Gustav Klimt paintings are causing quite the stir on the auction market. The three works from the famed Austrian painter, all of which are hitting the block for the first time, will go under ...

Two years ago, Gustav Klimt’s final portrait — a vibrant portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan — topped the artist’s auction record when it sold for a staggering $108 million. The Austrian ...

This fall in New York, Sotheby’s will offer The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, a once-in-a-generation collection of 20th-century masterpieces that personifies the lifelong connoisseurship of one of the ...

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic former House Speaker, announced her retirement on Thursday. Pelosi, the only woman to ever hold the office of House Speaker, said she would not seek ...

The family of Estee Lauder Companies Inc. heir Leonard Lauder is seeking to raise about $1 billion in a sale of shares in the beauty products maker, according to people familiar with the matter.

The sale is expected to generate more than $400 million, with proceeds benefiting the Leonard A. Lauder Trust. Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' is the centerpiece, estimated to sell for ...