This Gustav Klimt portrait was seized by the Nazis during World War II before being restituted to the Lederer family in 1948 — a documented history of theft and restitution that adds enormous weight to an already significant work.
The November 2025 Sotheby's sale, part of the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, triggered a twenty-minute bidding war between six different bidders and became the most valuable artwork ever sold at public auction, second only to Salvator Mundi's private-adjacent sale.
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