Insiders only: How the ultra-wealthy shopLuxury for the ultra-rich now emphasizes exclusivity and personalized experiences. Brands offer private shopping lounges, specialized bouti...
04 Mar, 2025, 02.47 PM IST
107-yr-old painting by Gustav Klimt could fetch $53 mn at auctionThe unfinished portrait of a dark-haired woman was likely last seen at a Viennese exhibition in 1925. It reemerged this year when auction h...
25 Apr, 2024, 11.51 PM IST
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's painting fetches $108mn at London auctionThis makes the painting the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe.
01 Jul, 2023, 03.43 PM IST
Gustav Klimt's last portrait - 'Lady with a Fan' - may fetch $80 mn at London auctionSotheby's expects Gustav Klimt's last portrait, "Dame mit Facher" ("Lady with a Fan"), to set a European record when it is auctioned in Lon...
14 Jun, 2023, 06.47 PM IST
Vienna museum tilts Gustav Klimt's well-known Attersee lake painting to illustrate climate change threatThe initiative comes after climate activists attacked a Klimt piece at the museum.
23 Mar, 2023, 07.30 AM IST
Gustav Klimt's rare painting 'Water Serpents II' gets an exhibition in Austria after 60 years'Water Serpents II' depicts nymphs grappling with a red serpent,
06 Feb, 2023, 06.14 PM IST
Climate activists vandalise glass safeguarding Gustav Klimt's painting in ViennaActivists glued their hands to a glass screen protecting a Gustav Klimt’s painting. They were protesting against oil drilling on a day when...
15 Nov, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection breaks record, fetches $1 billion at auctionAllen's collection at Christie's NY is the biggest sale in auction history.
10 Nov, 2022, 09.07 AM IST
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection goes up for sale; Gustav Klimt, Seurat works among 150 piecesWhat united Allen's eclectic trove, those who know him say, was his passion for each artwork.
23 Oct, 2022, 09.54 AM IST
Louvre gets its first-ever woman boss in Laurence des Cars, more than 2 centuries after openingDes Cars, who comes from a family of writers and journalists, will in September succeed Jean-Luc Martinez, the current Louvre chief.
26 May, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
Tintin’s adventures with testosterone: Does an artist have to imagine a fictitious character’s sex life?Hergé slapped a lawsuit on Marabout for is risqué artworks featuring the ever-young reporter.
20 Mar, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Sandro Botticelli's 14th-century 'masterpiece' may fetch more than $80 mn at New York auctionThis painting is considered as one of Botticelli's finest portraits.
28 Jan, 2021, 05.29 PM IST
Have a chic vacation in mind? Head to Milan in Italy or Seoul in South Korea for a fashionable experienceGo ahead and spot ways of vanity right on the streets and here’s your cue to up your travel fashion quotient.
24 Aug, 2017, 10.32 AM IST
- Giacometti work walks away for record $104.3 mn
History was made in the global art world at Sotheby’s London auction on February 3, 2010.
05 Feb, 2010, 02.54 AM IST
- Sotheby's hits gold in US as auctions fetch $1.8 b in 2006
Sotheby’s fastest-growing market last year was the US, where pricey Picassos and Cezannes helped swell auction totals by more than 50%.
03 Jan, 2007, 03.11 AM IST
- Few takers for Picasso in New York art sales
Pablo Picasso, the auction world’s top-priced artist, was a loser in this season’s New York sales as buyers opted for Gustav Klimt, who was...
21 Nov, 2006, 03.07 AM IST
- German arts dealer plans to launch funds for paintings
Fancy investing in a painting by US artist Andy Warhol instead of bonds or shares?
26 Sep, 2006, 01.19 AM IST