Klimt painting sold for $60mln at Sotheby’s

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Apainting byGustav Klimthas become the third most expensive artwork ever sold in Europe, after fetching a record price of £47,971,250 ($59,321,248) at Sotheby's, Bauerngarten (Flower Garden) became the Austrian symbolist's highest-priced landscape work when it was sold at the London auction house on Wednesday, the Telegraph reports.

Gustav Klimt(July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austriansymbolist painterand one of the most prominent members of theVienna Secessionmovement.