Lost Gustav Klimt painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

Lost Gustav Klimt painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

Unfinished Portrait of Fräulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject

A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for €30m (£26m) at an auction in Vienna.

Entitled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists in Europe, and a year before his death.

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