Lady with a Fan is described as a 'technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation'
A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has been sold for £85.3m , setting a new record for any work of art sold at auction in Europe.
Lady With A Fan - described as a"technical tour de force" - was still on an easel in Klimt's studio in Vienna when heIt was sold to a buyer in the room at Sotheby's in London after a 10-minute bidding war for a hammer price of £74m, well exceeding the presale estimate of £65m.Auctioneer Helena Newman, Sotheby's head of impressionist and modern art, went through the final bids in half-million pound increments.
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