Painting by Gustav Klimt

1. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt

(I was surprised to know that my favorite nouveau artist owns the most expensive painting of all times...)

This painting was sold to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York City for $135 million in June 2006 at auction in Christie's, New York. Portrait of Dr. Gachet is painted in June 1890 by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and the hostess of a prominent Vienna salon, is considered one of the artist's masterpieces. Adele Bloch-Bauer became the only model who was painted twice by Klimt when he completed a second picture of her, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, in 1912