Vienna Secession Painting, Long Thought to Be Lost, Sets a Record at Auction

On Tuesday, Philadelphia-based auction house Freemans sold Viennese artist Carl Moll’s White Interior (1905) for a record-breaking $4.75 million during its European art and Old Masters sale, which brought in a collective $6.4 million.
The result for the Moll painting marks the highest price achieved for a single lot in the house’s history, surpassing the $3.1 million paid for a Chinese vase in 2011, and Tuesday’s sale is now the biggest auction ever held at Freemans. White Inte