HE’S called her Gustav Klimt’s Mona Lisa – and as cosmetics king and Neue Galerie President Ronald Lauder yesterday unveiled the painting for which he reportedly paid a record $135 million, Adele ...

The stratospheric price that cosmetics maven Ronald S. Lauder shelled out for Gustav Klimt’s 1907 society portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I—reportedly $135 million, the most ever paid for a work of art—is ...

Luck, according to the Roman dramatist Seneca, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. If so, Los Angeles is the luckiest city in the world for Modern art right now. Preparation just met ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it will exhibit five important paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, works that were stolen by the Nazi regime during World War II.

FIVE multimillion-dollar paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt -- looted by the Nazis and recently returned by the Austrian government to the family of Maria Altmann in Los Angeles -- will go on ...

Austria agreed on Tuesday to abide by a ruling and will give up ownership of five Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family. But Culture ...

A 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased by cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest amount ever paid for a painting, The New York Times reported. The price tops the ...

VIENNA, Austria, Jan. 17 -- Austria agreed Tuesday to abide by a court ruling and will give up ownership of five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them ...