Klimt Portrait sells for $236.4 million / / Frida Kahlo portrait also auctioned for $55 million

A new record for Modern Art

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer

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Highest price for any modern piece of art

$236.4 million

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The Frida Kahol portrait was painted

in 1940.