Top price predicted for long-lost Klimt portrait at Vienna auction

Portrait of Miss Lieser, valued at USD 32 to 53 million, will be sold on auction in Vienna on Wednesday

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.A poster featuring the painting of a young female ''Portrait of Miss Lieser'' by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, on display at the im Kinsky auction house in Vienna, Austria on April 16, 2024.

The unfinished portrait of a dark-haired woman was likely last seen at a Viennese exhibition in 1925. It reemerged this year when auction house im Kinsky announced its sale. The highest price paid at auction in Austria is a work by Flemish painter Frans Francken II, which fetched seven million euros in 2010.Wednesday’s auction will begin at 1500 GMT. Besides “Portrait of Miss Lieser”, sketches by Klimt and works by his contemporaries such as Egon Schiele will be on sale.

She could be one of the two daughters, named Helene and Annie, of Henriette Lieser, an art patron. But the first catalogue dedicated to Klimt, dating from the 1960s, said it was Lieser’s niece, Margarethe.

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