This painting?
It just sold at auction for $236.4 MILLION DOLLARS. Sotheby's auctioned off more than two dozen pieces from the estate of Estee Lauder's son Leonard. The painting, of Elizabeth Lederer, was done in 1916 -- Lauder bought it in the 1980s and kept it until his death earlier this year.
Gustav, like so many other artists (ahem - Picasso - cough), was not a nice person.
'Yes, I am a pig. But at least my cat likes me.'
The man painted beautifully. His 1907 Woman in Gold, also known as Lady [Dame] in Gold, tis still one of my favorites.
The painting was stolen by the Nazis, and ended up in an Austrian art gallery, the Galerie Belvedere. It only came back to the family after a 7-year legal battle.
(The movie Woman in Gold describes some of this.)
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