Klimt Leads Historic $706M Opening Night at Sotheby’s Breuer Debut
19 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Tag: Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt: Celebrating an Austrian Symbolist Painter and Vienna Secession Pioneer
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) is an iconic figure in art history, known for his role in the Vienna Secession movement. As an Austrian symbolist painter, Klimt’s brilliance shone through captivating paintings, murals, sketches, and objets d’art.
His muse was the female form, exuding an unapologetic eroticism that left a lasting mark on the art world. His portfolio includes figurative works, allegories, portraits, and mesmerizing landscapes.
Influenced by Japanese art, Klimt infused his work with unique cultural elements. Controversy arose around his paintings for the University of Vienna’s Great Hall, but his “golden phase” brought renewed success with gold leaf-adorned masterpieces.
Klimt’s impact extended to younger artists like Egon Schiele from the Vienna Secession movement. His paintings have commanded top prices at auctions since the 1990s.
Gustav Klimt’s legacy endures as a testament to his genius. His works continue to captivate art enthusiasts, securing his lasting influence.
Art Basel Paris: The Not So Usual.
19 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Excellence is fairly routine, then, so I went in search of fare that was also unusual in some way. Here are 10 examples:
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
23 March 2023 • Mark Westall
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art opens at the National Gallery this week featuring 97 works – 32% of which are from private collections so are rarely seen, this and the fact that the exhibition features some of the most important works of art created between 1886 and around 1914 make this a must-see exhibition.
New 30,000 sq ft digital immersive arts experience to open in London this Autumn
30 May 2022 • Mark Westall
The UK’s biggest and London’s first permanent digital immersive arts experience to open in Marble Arch this Autumn. Covering 30,000… Read More
Top 5 Art Books to buy in TASCHEN’s sale (up to 75% off)
28 January 2021 • Mark Westall
The TASCHEN sale has started with up to a 75% discount here are our Top 5 choices
5 most popular Art Exhibitions of 2018
28 December 2018 • Mark Westall
Here are the 5 most popular exhibitions on FAD magazine in 2018 an eclectic mix featuring JR, Jamie Reed, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Damien Hirst, Murakami and Virgil Abloh
More than a million people see digital exhibition dedicated to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Paris
19 December 2018 • Mark Westall
More than a million people have visited a digital exhibition dedicated to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Paris, according to the organisers Culturespaces
Klimt / Schiele exhibition opens in London
31 October 2018 • Mark Westall
2018 marks the centenary of the deaths of two of the most celebrated and pioneering figures of early twentieth-century art: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, will be the first exhibition in the UK to focus on the fundamental importance of drawing for both artists
#KlimtSchiele at The Royal Academy
25 July 2018 • Mark Westall
2018 marks the centenary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, will be the first exhibition in the UK to focus on the fundamental importance of drawing for both artists.
Klimt’s iconic masterpiece “The Tree of Life” brought to life with A.R.
5 June 2018 • Mark Westall
Using augmented reality, Klimt’s iconic masterpiece “The Tree of Life” will be brought to life for the enjoyment of Pioneers attendees in celebration of Viennese modernism and on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of death of Gustav Klimt.
MoMA heads to Paris this Autumn touching down at Fondation Louis Vuitton
30 August 2017 • Mark Westall
The Museum of Modern Art is heading to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris this October. For an exceptional exhibition devoted to the unrivaled collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby’s
26 June 2015 • Staff
Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4m
GO SEE : Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude @CourtauldGall
2 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Erwin Dominik Osen, Nude with Crossed Arms, 1910 Black chalk, watercolour and gouache 44.7 x 31.5 cm… Read More
Syrian artist goes viral with Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Azzam merges instantly recognisable masterpieces into images from Syria’s war zones, working in various digital mediums to address the ongoing political and social upheaval in Syria, and the cycles of violence and destruction tearing his country apart.
Don’t Miss: The Silverman Collection at Richard Nagy.
5 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Top Rate German and Austrian art : Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, Wiener Werkstätte, Georg Grosz, Otto Dix, Ludwig Meidner, Oskar Schlemmer and Max Beckmann and more.
Leah Michellé answers FADs Questions
10 September 2012 • Mark Westall
My abstract paintings come from within, I express my love of life through them.
Kiss and tell: street artists imitate Gustav Klimt’s erotic art
22 August 2012 • Mark Westall
A crew of nine leading lights from the street art scene are making new works inspired by the great, sensual Austrian – and Mode 2’s response is characteristically provocative
The people’s painters: what makes a work of art popular?
19 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Monet, Van Gogh, and Klimt are the favourite artists among virtual art collectors. But before you turn your nose up at these obvious choices, let’s consider their mass appeal
Getty Museum Announces Acquisition of Two Drawings by Klimt
18 November 2009 • Mark Westall
Image:Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918),” Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining”, 1897-1898. Black chalk. 45.5 X 31.5 cm. 2009.57.1 The J…. Read More