A painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has become the third most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.
“Bauerngarten,” Gustav Klimt’s exuberant 1907 oil painting of a garden filled with poppies, daisies and other flowers, sold for $59.3m (£48m) during a Sotheby’s evening auction of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist works in London on Wednesday — a record auction price for a landscape by the artist.
A painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt has become the third most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.
“Bauerngarten,” Gustav Klimt’s exuberant 1907 oil painting of a garden filled with poppies, daisies and other flowers, sold for $59.3m (£48m) during a Sotheby’s evening auction of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist works in London on Wednesday — a record auction price for a landscape by the artist.