Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 years - BBC News
The Portrait of Fraulein Lieser' - last seen in public in 1925 - has been discovered in Vienna.
4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AFPImage caption, The auction house estimates the painting's value at more than $54 millionBy Bethany BellBBC News in ViennaA painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna.
Portrait of Fraulein Lieser once belonged to a Jewish family in Austria and was last seen in public in 1925.
Its fate after that is unclear but the family of the current owners have had the painting since the 1960s.
The im Kinsky auction house estimates the painting's value at more than $54 million (£42 million).
It called the rediscovery "a sensation".
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