$150m Klimt among $400m Leonard Lauder Treasures at Sotheby's
September 16 2025
Picture: Sotheby's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Sotheby's New York have announced the upcoming sale of $400m of art from the collection of the late Leonard A. Lauder. The top lot of the November sale, the first to be held in the brutalist Breuer building, is expected to be Gustav Klimt‘s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer which is said to carry an estimate of more than $150m.
According to the article linked above:
It is not the only expensive Klimt from Lauder’s holdings headed to Sotheby’s, either. Two landscapes from Klimt—one depicting a meadow and dated 1906, the other showing a forest and dated 1917—will come to auction, too, with estimates of $80 million–$100 million and $70 million–$90 million, respectively.
Beyond the Klimts, the Lauder sale will also include six bronzes by Henri Matisse collectively worth $30 million, a $20 million Edvard Munch painting, and an Agnes Martin painting valued at more than $10 million.
