Oprah Winfrey has undeniably good taste.
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Oprah reportedly sold a painting for $150 million in one of last year's biggest private art sales
The billionaire mogul sold a Gustav Klimt painting to an unnamed Chinese buyer in 2016.
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The billionaire mogul reportedly sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for a cool $150 million sometime in 2016, according to Bloomberg. The painting was purchased by an unnamed Chinese buyer.
Winfrey purchased the painting, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II," for $87.9 million at a Christie's auction in 2006. The purchase broke a price record for Klimt's work. It was painted in 1912 and depicts the wife of an industrialist and art patron in Vienna.
Klimt, a 19th-century Austrian painter, is famous for his symbolist style and for being a prominent member of the Vienna Secession movement.
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Winfrey anonymously lent the painting to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2014, in a transaction arranged by David Geffen.
The painting is currently on display in the Neue Galerie museum for Austrian and German art, which is owned by the
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