A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

This George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by James Madison, has a colorful history. Now Christie’s in ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...

A Gustav Klimt painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million US, with fees, breaking a record for a modern art piece. Klimt's Portrait ...

AP — A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of ...

Christian C. Johnson Memorial Gallery, 1988. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!56070~!0# ...

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...