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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Gustav Klimt

Nathalie Andrijasevic, an assistant curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, handles paintings which were moved to an underground safe room at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on August 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)
August 14, 2024, 4:06 am
Protect the Picasso: Fearing Iranian attack, Tel Aviv museum stashes priceless art
Facility is moving more valuable works from its collections to an underground safe room first utilized after October 7, leaving some galleries with blank walls
By Nir Kafri
Auctioneer Michael Kovacek sells the Gustav Klimt painting 'Portrait of Fräulein Lieser' for 30 million Euros at auction in Vienna on April 24, 2024. (Alex Halada/AFP)
April 28, 2024, 12:15 pm
Sold! Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Miss Lieser’ fetches $32M at auction… but who was she?
Intensely colored painting of likely teenage subject was one of artist’s last works; it fetched an Austrian art auction record price, but its ownership, too, is shrouded in mystery
By Francois Murphy
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser by Gustav Klimt, 1917 (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144566137)
January 27, 2024, 3:58 am
Gustav Klimt painting resurfaces in Austria after almost 100 years
Last seen in 1925, portrait was commissioned by wealthy Jewish family, painted in 1917 shortly before artist’s death; work estimated at $33-55 million, to be auctioned in April
By AFP
People take pictures of Gustav Klimt's 'Dame mit Faecher' (Lady with a Fan) as it is displayed at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 28, 2023, 4:21 am
Final portrait by Klimt sold for $94 million, smashing European auction record
‘Dame mit Facher,’ which was still on its easel when the celebrated Austrian painter was found dead in 1918, bought by Hong Kong collector in latest eye-popping art deal
By Agencies
Gustav Klimt's 'Dame mit Fächer' is shown in this hand-out image released by Sotheby's. (Sotheby's via AP)
June 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Auction house says sale of Klimt’s final portrait could set European record
Sotheby’s believes that ‘Dame mit Facher’ (Lady with a Fan) could fetch some $80 million when it goes on sale at the end of the month
By AFP
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rosebushes under the Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
January 30, 2022, 12:38 pm
France votes to restore 15 works of art looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs
Culture Minister Bachelot hails ‘historic’ bill; Senate approval still needed; among pieces to be returned are a Klimt and a Chagall
By AFP and ToI Staff
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rose Bushes Under Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
March 16, 2021, 8:05 pm
France to return Nazi-looted Klimt painting to Jewish family
‘Rose Bushes Under Trees,’ painted by the Austrian artist around 1904-05, will be given to the relatives of Holocaust victim Nora Stiasny
By AFP
An Italian Policeman, left, and a Carabiniere, paramilitary police officer, stand beside a painting which was found last December near an art gallery and believed to be the missing Gustav Klimt's painting ‘Portrait of a Lady’ during a press conference in Piacenza, Italy, Jan. 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
January 18, 2020, 11:07 am
Painting found stashed in wall of Italian museum confirmed to be stolen Klimt
Experts authenticate century-old artwork which went missing in February 1997 while the gallery was closed for work
By Agencies
A section of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (Photo credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
January 19, 2018, 11:32 pm
Vienna marks 100 years since heyday of art, and its Jewish collectors
A century after fall of Austro-Hungarian empire, museums in Austrian capital display country’s top works, some of which were looted by Nazis
By Philippe SCHWAB
This file photo taken on August 19, 2015 shows French journalist and author Valerie Trierweiler looking on at the Champ de Mars, next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris (AFP/Miguel Medina)
April 29, 2017, 8:49 pm
Hollande’s ex writes about Klimt’s Jewish mistress
French president’s former girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler pens new book inspired by the ‘torrid affair’ of famed painter
By AFP
Detail from a salt cellar dating back to 1560, which will be auctioned on July 8, 2015, after it was returned to the heirs of a Jewish couple who owned it before it was looted by the Nazis. (Sotheby’s)
July 6, 2015, 12:53 am
Rubbing salt out of a wound, a storied artifact goes on sale
A 16th-century salt cellar, part of a collection looted by the Nazis 80 years ago, will finally be sold for its intended charitable purpose
By Daniel Bernstein
Max Liebermann's "Two riders on the beach" (YouTube screen capture)
June 24, 2015, 11:58 pm
Nazi-looted painting from Munich fetches close to $3m
Max Liebermann’s ‘Two Riders on a Beach,’ among works found in home of Cornelius Gurlitt, garners three times its sales estimate
By Ruth Holmes
Max Liebermann's "Two riders on the beach" (YouTube screen capture)
June 24, 2015, 1:08 pm
Nazi-looted painting from Munich haul to be auctioned Wednesday
Max Liebermann’s ‘Two Riders on a Beach’ was found among more than 1,200 works of art in home of Cornelius Gurlitt
By AFP
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