Unfinished Portrait of Fräulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject
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
The artwork’s sudden re-emergence, coupled with an intriguing backstory, built up considerable buzz around the painting. The sum the painting fetched was at the bottom of its €30m to €50m valuation, and some way off the £74m that another late-period Klimt portrait, Dame mit Fächer , fetched in London last June – a record for any artwork ever sold at an auction in Europe.Some key questions about the painting remain unanswered, including the identity of its subject and its provenance during the Nazi era.
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