Forgotten Klimt to make £6m
February 6 2012
Picture: Sothebys
By LH.
A 'forgotten' painting by Gustav Klimt is to go under the hammer at Sothebys on Wednesday estimated at £6m-£8m.
The painting (shown above) is one of Kilmt's landscapes, painted during a sojourn to a lake near Salzburg in 1901. Klimt's landscapes have experienced ever-increasing attention over the last decade, this one making over $40m last October. This work, titled 'Lakeshore with Birches' and painted in 1902 was given by two collectors to their daughter as a wedding present a few years after it was painted, and has remained in the same family ever since.
I'll let you know what happens.
