At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction. An 18-karat solid gold toilet by the artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for $12.1 million at the auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4o1y1hh | The New York Times

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Gustav Klimt’s 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' just broke the modern art auction record, selling for $236.4 million at Sotheby’s New York | Hindustan Times

Last night, history was made in the Sotheby’s auction room at the Breuer Building. More than 25,000 visitors attended the preview exhibitions to see Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer) from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. In the end, it came down to just two bidders battling it out, with @ob1london dropping the hammer for a record-breaking total of $236.4 million. Watch the full bidding war for the most valuable work of modern art – and the seco