Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

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From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Klimt painting, which hung in the billionaire Leonard A. Lauder's home for decades, is now the most expensive work of modern ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

(CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a ...

It's another day to learn something new, and we have put together three most expensive paintings ever sold. The Gauguin painting was sold for $300m. It's the highest price ever paid for a work of art, ...