Klimt’s Final Masterpiece Sells for $94.3 M., Achieving European Auction Record

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