Friday

$135m Art Now Showing

The most expensive art ever purchased goes on show in New York worth 135 million dollars. Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist, was bought by cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder in June. It was the focus of a restitution battle between the niece of Bloch Bauer and the Austrian government after it was claimed that the painting and four others by Klimt were seized by the Nazis in World War Two. It's now on show at the Neue Galerie in New York. Irish Art