A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction.

Christie’s has just auctioned the first of the double portraits the British artist created in the mid-1960s. It is the last ...

At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.

Gustav Klimt's Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer painting sold for more than $236 million, becoming the second-most-expensive work of art to be auctioned, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.

At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.

If there’s a common thread running through this year’s presentations, it’s the introspective tone of works that grapple with ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

A Gustav Klimt painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece.

A gold toilet sculpture created a lot of excitement before the big art auction in New York, but its price underwhelmed compared to an ethereal Klimt portrait.

Visitors to the fair will find a city overflowing with history and art, including contemporary graffiti and posthumous museum ...

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