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How a desperate lie saved a Gustav Klimt portrait from the Nazis – and helped shape its record sale price

How a desperate lie saved a Gustav Klimt portrait from the Nazis – and helped shape its record sale price

The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.

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A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for £4.9 million – part of the evolving relationship between art and finance

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, entitled Comedian,...

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