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Klimt's last portrait sells for record amount at auction

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Painter Gustav Klimt's final painting sold for a record amount at auction.

"Lady with a Fan," which was still on an easel in Klimt's studio when he died in 1918, set the record for the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction.

A Hong Kong collector was the buyer. The piece sold for roughly $108.4 million.

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