Klimt sells for $29.1 million
“The Villa at Attersee,” a 1914 landscape by Austrian modernist Gustav Klimt, commanded the top price of $29.1 million at Sotheby’s big fall auction of Impressionist and Modern art Wednesday night in New York.
An Impressionist painting of waterlilies by Claude Monet and “Harvest in Provence,” a watercolor by Vincent van Gogh, each brought $10 million.
The sale was far from a runaway success; 17 of the 57 works offered failed to find buyers. But the auction house racked up a total of $125.5 million in sales and set records for two artists -- Klimt and Russian painter Alexei von Jawlensky , whose 1910 portrait “Schokko” was sold for $8.2 million.
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Suzanne Muchnic
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