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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cAt $205 million, here it is for this Elisabeth Lederer portrait, only at Sotheby\u2019s. Here in the Breuer, the Klimt. Julian, it\u2019s yours. Congratulations, congratulations.\u201d \u201cShall I sell at $10 million? Your chances are circling the drain, all of you. At $10 million. I\u2019m selling at $10 million. At $10 million \u2014 fair Warning. At $10 million \u2014 that\u2019s yours, Cassandra. Sold, $10 million to Paddle 86.\u201d<\/p>\n At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction. An 18-karat solid gold toilet by the artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for $12.1 million at the auction at Sotheby\u2019s in New York on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n By Chevaz Clarke<\/p>\n November 19, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Klimt Art Is Second-Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction transcript Back transcript Klimt Art Is Second-Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction. An 18-karat solid gold toilet by the artist Maurizio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[3153,14322,9551,19582,8482,19583,2882],"class_list":{"0":"post-34465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-auction","10":"tag-expensive","11":"tag-klimt","12":"tag-painting","13":"tag-secondmost","14":"tag-sold"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Klimt Art Is Second-Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold at Auction<\/h2>\n
At $236.4 million, a portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction. An 18-karat solid gold toilet by the artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for $12.1 million at the auction at Sotheby\u2019s in New York on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n