Lost Gustav Klimt painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna
Unfinished Portrait of Fräulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject
October 2023
The longer you look, the darker it gets: reassessing Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss
Klimt & The Kiss review – deep dive into the celebrated erotic masterpiece
June 2023
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Champagne Charlie at the crematorium
Brief letters: Not Götterdämmerung | A final song from Ivor Cutler | Roman role reversal | Greek students’ fire escape | A costly Klimt
Gustav Klimt’s Lady with a Fan sells for £85.3m, breaking European record
The auction in London for the Austrian artist’s final painting achieved the highest price ever in Europe for a work of art
Last portrait by Gustav Klimt expected to fetch £65m at London auction
‘Heartfelt ode to absolute beauty’ was on Austrian artist’s easel when he died unexpectedly in 1918
December 2022
Auction houses celebrate bumper year of blockbuster art sales
Deaths and divorces of major collectors fuel record £14.3bn in sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips
November 2022
Climate activists throw black liquid at Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna – video
Pair attack Death and Life painting in Leopold Museum in protest against fossil fuel ‘death sentence’
Climate activists throw black liquid at Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna
Pair attack Death and Life painting in Leopold Museum in protest against fossil fuel ‘death sentence’
Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’
Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charity
March 2021
France to return Klimt painting looted by the Nazis in 1938
Rosebushes Under the Trees, painted in 1905, was stolen from an Austrian Jewish family
February 2020
Gustav Klimt theft: police question gallery owner's widow
Woman linked to Italian gallery from where painting vanished questioned over diary entry
January 2020
Spiderman's on the loose! The art heists that shook the world – in pictures
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady has been found – in the same gallery it was taken from. At least it wasn’t cut up by a mafia boss or hauled aboard a pirate ship
Klimt art thieves confess to stealing then returning painting
Portrait of a Lady was hidden in same Italian gallery from which it went missing in 1997
Painting found inside Italian gallery wall confirmed as a Gustav Klimt
Gardeners discovered Portrait of a Lady while clearing ivy at gallery in Piacenza
December 2019
Painting found hidden in Italian gallery wall may be stolen Klimt
Portrait of a Lady, missing for 23 years, believed found by gardener in secret cavity
November 2018
Klimt / Schiele review – their obsessions were mutual
Ferociously brilliant young Egon Schiele and established master Gustav Klimt share the spotlight in this compelling Viennese double bill
October 2018
Klimt / Schiele review – the double act who saw the profound in the pornographic
Royal Academy, London This sumptuous collection of drawings reveals how the master and his protege caused a scandal by bringing sex and death into collision
May 2018
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Selfie Kiss makes it easier to experience the real thing
Brief letters: Selfie Kiss | Finding companionship | Al Capone and Donald Trump | Predictive text | Double entendres
April 2017
Nazi-looted painting to be auctioned as owners' heirs fail to halt sale
Auction house Im Kinsky accused of moral bankruptcy for selling Bartholomeus van der Helst’s Portrait of a Man despite disputed ownership
