Wall St. Insights Some paintings go on private display after being sold.  Every painting on this list has sold for over $100 ...

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The case ended up being arbitrated in Austria, and Schoenberg won. The paintings were returned to Altmann, and she sold one of them, the famous gold portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, to Ronald Lauder for ...

The Austrian Symbolist painter is best-known for his work on gold-leaf-encrusted canvases such as The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. The new rate of £13.85 an hour will ...

Jane Rothstein was named president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland, replacing Dr. Deborah A. Katz, who recently ...

She subsequently sold the pictures, one of them–the famed Gold Portrait of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer–to Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million. Pillage and looting during warfare are not, of course, ...

Famous artist Gustav Klimt, who was born in Austria, created "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" in 1907. The image, which is also referred to as the "Lady in Gold" or the "Woman in Gold," shows ...

Klimt's famous "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," is one of six paintings taken by the Nazis in 1938 from the home of her uncle Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and never returned. (Photo by Ann Johansson ...

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Other notable works include The Kiss, painted in 1909 and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) that was sold for $87.9m (£69.55m at current rates) in New York in November 2006. He was a ...