In honor of artist Gerhard Richter's 94th birthday, the story of "Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan)," the $37 million painting that hung for 15 years next to the front desk at the Park Hyatt ...

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Klimt painting, which hung in the billionaire Leonard A. Lauder's home for decades, is now the most expensive work of modern ...

Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby's in New York Pablo Picasso’s 1955 "Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O)" holds the record after it sold at Christie’s New ...

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

(CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a ...