Klimt’s Final Masterpiece Sells for $108 M., Achieving European Auction Record

Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917–18, became the most expensive painting ever to sell at auction in Europe during the Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, after it hammered at an astounding £74 million ($94.3 million).With fees, the total price achieved exceeded £85.3 million ($108 million). Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man I held the previous record for a European auction, selling for $104.3 million at