If you were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the company of, say, a teenage daughter or niece, you might pause before this Gustav Klimt painting, “Hope, II,” and sigh. Who doesn’t ...

After Otto Kallir opened Galerie St Etienne in 1939 on West 57th Street in New York, having fled his birthplace ... including Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Kubin and Oskar Kokoschka.

Sotheby's New York broke its own sales ... breaks the top 15 most expensive paintings ever sold during auctions and private sales, hedging out Gustav Klimt's "Adele Bloch-Bauer II," which sold ...