Oprah makes $60mln by flipping Klimt painting
14:10, 10 February 2017YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 10, ARMENPRESS. Oprah Winfrey, America’s most famous TV host has pulled one of the biggest private arts deals, Fox News reports.
The talk show legend sold a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt for $150 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer according to Bloomberg.
Already one of the world's richest people with a net worth of $2.9 billion, Winfrey originally purchased the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" for $87.9 million at a Christie's auction in 2006.
Klimt created the painting in 1912 and it depicts the wife of an art patron and industrialist in Vienna.
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