<p><b>--TEASE--</b></p>\n<p><b>klimt-portrait-sothebys-auction-record-dame-mit-facher-2</b></p>\n<p>Approved - Nicole Mowbray</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>Klimt’s ‘last masterpiece’ sells for record-breaking $108.4 million</b></p>\n<p><b>By Oscar Holland and Jacqui Palumbo</b></p>\n<p><b>CNN</b></p>\n<p> CNN -- The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction Tuesday, when it sold for a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London.</p>\n<p> Depicting an unidentified female subject, “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) also established a new record for Klimt, outselling “Birch Forest,” which fetched $104.6 million last year from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen. The bidding on Tuesday lasted 10 minutes before going to an unidentified buyer in Hong Kong, according to Sotheby’s auction house.</p>\n<p> “Dame mit Fächer” was one of two paintings found at the Austrian artist’s studio upon his death in 1918, according to Sotheby’s.</p>\n<p> A work the artist had started a year prior, in 1917, “Dame mit Fächer” is rendered in Klimt’s characteristically rich, expressive style. Like much of his output, it showcases the East Asian influences that shaped his work — not only in the fan held by his unknown sitter, but also the use of phoenix and lotus blossom motifs. The background’s flattened perspective meanwhile evokes the Japanese wood-block prints that featured prominently in the painter’s sizable Asian art collection.</p>\n<p> Sotheby’s had dubbed the portrait Klimt’s “last masterpiece,” with the auction house’s head of impressionist and modern art evening sales, Thomas Boyd Bowman, describing it ahead of the sale as “stunning.”</p>\n<p> “The beauty and sensuality of the portrait lies in the detail: the flecks of blue and pink which enliven the sitter’s skin, the feathery lines of her eyelashes and the pursed lips that give her face character,” he said in a press release.</p>\n<p> Most of Klimt’s best-known works — including his iconic “The Kiss” — emerged from his earlier “Golden Phase,” in which he often incorporated gold leaf into his art. This period of his career was finished by the turn of the 1910s. But Klimt was, at the time of this death aged 55, in his “artistic prime and producing some of his most accomplished and experimental works,” Sotheby’s head of impressionist and modern art Helena Newman said in a statement.</p>\n<p> “Dame mit Fächer” is one of the few Klimt portraits still in private hands. Unusually, it is square-shaped, measuring roughly one meter (3.3 feet) in both height and width. Newman also noted that — unlike many of Klimt’s best-known portraits — the work was not a commission, meaning it was likely painted for his own pleasure.</p>\n<p> “This … is something completely different — a technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation, as well as a heartfelt ode to absolute beauty,” she said.</p>\n<p> The painting was previously owned by Viennese industrialist Erwin Böhle, a friend and patron of Klimt’s. It was later purchased by art collector Rudolf Leopold, who sold it to the current owner’s family at Sotheby’s in 1994 for under $12 million — at the time, setting a new auction record for the Austrian artist. The painting has not appeared at auction since, though it was exhibited last year at The Belvedere, an Austrian museum housing “The Kiss” and several other important Klimt works.</p>\n<p> Klimt’s paintings have exploded in value over the last two decades. The Austrian is now among only a handful of artists whose works have sold publicly for nine-figure sums.</p>\n<p> Other works are thought to have sold privately for even more. According to the Financial Times, court documents from an ongoing legal dispute between the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and art dealer Yves Bouvier showed that the oligarch once purchased Klimt’s “Wasserschlangen II” (Water Serpents II) for $183.8 million.</p>\n<p> Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” was meanwhile bought by US businessman Ronald Lauder for a reported $135 million in 2006. Ten years later, Oprah Winfrey sold another depiction of the same subject, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II,” to a Chinese buyer for $150 million, according to Bloomberg.</p>\n<p> “Dame mit Fächer” was the star lot in Sotheby’s modern and contemporary art summer auction, which was timed to coincide with the long-awaited reopening of London’s National Portrait Gallery. The auction featured other portraits by prominent artists, including Alberto Giacometti and Edvard Munch.</p>\n<p> The sale came amid fears that the auction market is cooling following an initially buoyant recovery from Covid-19. The latest edition of UBS and Art Basel’s annual market report found that global auction revenues, having surged by 47% in 2021, declined by 1% last year.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SOT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

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BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER ARRIVES, LOOKS LIKE A KLIMT PAINTING

NAME: US ART 20060403I TAPE: EF06/0286 IN_TIME: 10:21:17:08 DURATION: 00:02:31:15 SOURCES: AP/POOL DATELINE: Los Angeles, 29 Mar 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: AP Television 1. Wide of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 2. Close up of museum sign POOL 3. Medium as museum workers unpacking Klimt painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I 4. Close up of painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I AP Television 5. Wide of Maria Altmann 6. Close up of Maria Altmann with photo album 7. Close up of photos of Altmann's parents 8. Close up of photo of Maria Altman from 1938 9. SOUNBITE: (English) Maria Altmann "For seven years we tried and they (Austria) claimed that we don't own the paintings that they were left to them and they had them for sixty-eight years. So it's time now that another country has them and that other people can look at them." 10. Close up of Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer II. 11. Close up of Klimt's Buchenwald (Birkenwald) 12. SOUNBITE: (English) Maria Altmann " We all would like the same thing. That the paintings will be going to a place where the public, where it is accessible to the public to see them. I wouldn't like them in a private home." 13. Close up of Klimt's Hauser in Unterach am Attersee 14. Close up of Klimt's Apfelbaum I 15. SOUNBITE: (English) Maria Altmann "You know all these friends told me: 'Oh I wish we could go to Vienna with you and see the (Klimt) paintings'. Well so I am going to tell them I've made it easier for them. I've brought the paintings here." POOL 16. Wide of museum workers unpacking Klimt painting STORYLINE: Five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from a Jewish Austrian family by the Nazis during World War II have arrived in Los Angeles from Vienna for an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that begins on Tuesday following a seven-year ownership battle by an heir who immigrated to California. Among the paintings is the gold-flecked "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," one of Klimt's most famous works. It has an estimated value of $120 million (euro100 million). The Vienna castle had displayed the works until an arbitration court ruled earlier this year that they must be returned to Maria Altmann, 90, of Beverly Hills and other heirs of the Jewish family that owned the paintings before the Nazis took over Austria in 1938. Altmann fought to recover the paintings, but made clear that she preferred the works to remain on display rather than disappear into a private collection. The paintings will go on exhibit April 4 through June 30, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced in a statement that included comment from Altmann. Her aunt and uncle, Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, commissioned or bought the five paintings from Klimt, who lived from 1862 to 1918. "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" is one of two portraits of Altmann's aunt among the works. The exhibition will also include the landscapes "Beechwood" ("Buchenwald/Birkenwald"), "Apple Tree I" ("Apfelbaum") and "Houses in Unterach on Lake Atter" ("Haeuser in Unterach am Attersee"). The paintings are extraordinary examples from a rich period of art history and the story surrounding the family, its relationship to the artist and their regained ownership of the paintings will be told by the museum to the visitors from around the world. The Austrian government had hoped to buy back the paintings, but officials conceded they couldn't afford the $300 million (euro250 million) price tag. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a permanent collection of about 100,000 works of art ranging from ancient times to present day. keyword- art

<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p>Direct translation of press release relating to a conference given by Pisa prosecutor Teresa Angela Camelio on Nov. 11 in Pisa</p>\n<p>Note: TPC refers to the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, better known as the Carabinieri TPC</p>\n<p>Note: Italy has a three-tier judicial system under which all criminal investigations must go through the 1st degree, an automatic right of appeal, and then signed off by the high court (Cassazione) so when she refers to the "final sentence" she is referring to the high court's final word on this matter.</p>\n<p>the original document sent out to accredited journalists this morning is attached signed by Camelio </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>First of all, I would like to thank Major General Francesco Gargaro, Commander of the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Command, and Colonel Polio, Commander of the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Group of Rome, as well as my colleague Aldo lngangi, National Member ad interim at the Italian desk of Eurojust and Chief Marshal Giuseppe Malerba, SNY National Expert Seconded to Eurojust for coming, respectively from Rome and The Hague, to participate in this press conference.</p>\n<p>A further thank you to the President of the Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Diego Fiorini, for the generous help offered in setting up this room specifically for today's press conference.</p>\n<p>My gratitude also goes to the Director of the State Archives of Pisa, Dr. Jaleh Barahbadi, who with equal generosity has made herself available to host the works that are the object of this investigation, taking care of the preparation of the exhibition that will open immediately afterwards, without interruption, at Palazzo Toscanelli, on the Lungarno Mediceo.</p>\n<p>Today we are here to present the results of the transnational investigation for counterfeiting of works of art launched by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Pisa and delegated to the Carabinieri Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Rome and coordinated at European level by the Italian desk of the Eurojust Agency.</p>\n<p>The operation, called "Cariatide" (the name taken from the painting attributed to Modigliani) focuses on 38 individuals investigated for the crimes of complicity in receiving stolen goods, forgery and marketing of art goods and has led to the seizure of over 2,100 works of contemporary art which, if placed on the market, would have caused economic damage exceeding 200 million euros.</p>\n<p>It should be noted that the preliminary investigations are still ongoing and that the suspects are presumed innocent until the final judicial sentence. This press conference is justified by the transnational dimension of the investigation and its economic implications.</p>\n<p>The recovered fake works refer to the names of internationally renowned artists, including: Amedeo Modigliani, Andy Warhol, Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò, Arman, Francis Bacon, Wassily Kandisky, Gustav Klimt, Henry Moore, Haussmann, Tapies, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Twombly, Wilfredo Lam, Mare Chagall, Monet, De Chirico, Giacometti, Aubertin, Mituraj, Afro, Boccioni, Paul Klee, Van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vasarely, Pollock, Haring, Hopper, Death Nyc, Renato Guttuso and Salvador Dalì.</p>\n<p>The recovery is the result of numerous seizures carried out in Italy, Spain and Belgium.</p>\n<p>In particular, the investigative operation began in March 2023 with the seizure (delegated by the prosecutor) by the Carabinieri of the TPC Nucleus of Rome from a Pisan entrepreneur, of a decree that led to the recovery of approximately 200 contemporary works of art that were found to be counterfeit, including a painting depicting "Cariatide" by the artist Modigliani.</p>\n<p>Following this seizure, the investigators of the TPC Arm started further investigations, including monitoring the e-commerce platforms of the most important auction houses, in order to establish whether other works of the same kind had been offered for sale to the public and to ascertain the names of the subjects who supplied such artistic artefacts.</p>\n<p>In the second phase of the investigations, it was possible to ascertain that there were as many works on the market, put up for sale by various auction houses located in Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata and Sicily.</p>\n<p>The same thing happened in Tuscany and Veneto, where three forgers were identified and three painting laboratories used (Lucca, Pistoia and Venice) for the production of the counterfeit works were located.</p>\n<p>The reconstruction of the forgers' supply chain made it possible to ascertain the existence of a dense European network, created between Spain, France and Belgium, composed of individuals dedicated to such processes who, once the fake art object had been produced, proceeded to reach agreements with various Italian auction houses, some of which were compliant with the subsequent publication for sale.</p>\n<p>In particular, three works by artists Vasilij Kandisky, Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian, whose works are usually sold at international auctions for tens of millions of euros, had been auctioned off at a Pisan auction house for the sum of approximately 4,000 euros each.</p>\n<p>The illicit activity of the suspects had focused mainly on the works of artists Andy Warhol and Banksy, currently among the most important exponents of contemporary street art. The subjects involved had organized an exhibition with works by Banksy in Mestre and Cortona, displaying the works in official spaces at prestigious locations and publishing a catalogue.</p>\n<p>Given the evidence gathered on the counterfeiting activity in Europe, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pisa, with the international coordination of the Italian desk at Eurojust, issued three European Investigation Orders against 6 people in Spain, France and Belgium.</p>\n<p>On behalf of the Public Prosecutor in charge of the investigations, the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Rome carried out the measures abroad with the assistance of the Guardia Civil and the Mossos d'Esquadra in Spain, the Office Centrai de Lutte contre le Trafic de Biens Culturels (OCBC) in France and the Federal Police in Belgium.</p>\n<p>The activities conducted in Europe allowed the identification of three additional counterfeiting laboratories with the subsequent seizure of 1,000 imitation works of contemporary art, with over 450 certificates of authenticity and 50 stamps, all of which were fake. The work carried out has shed light on a transnational system of counterfeiters interconnected with compliant auction houses.</p>\n<p>The operation also, overall, made it possible to remove from the art market works that, if they had not been promptly identified and blocked, could have been subsequently placed on the market with prices close to those of the artists' original works.</p>\n<p>The consultants of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pisa, in addition to certifying the non-originality of the seized works, estimated that the same, if sold, would have caused economic damage of approximately 200 million euros, an eventuality that would certainly have significantly changed the auction market.</p>\n<p>The activity that I have just illustrated can be considered, according to the experts of the Bansky archive, who provided their consultancy without charge to the Prosecutor's Office, the greatest work of protection of Bansky.</p>\n<p>It should be noted that the preliminary investigations are still ongoing and that the suspects are presumed innocent until the final sentence.</p>\n<p><b>--SOT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool; T09080631 USA: New York: INT Klimt's portrait of adele bloch bauer ENDS

NAME: US PAINTING 20060619I TAPE: EF06/0538 IN_TIME: 10:41:36:16 DURATION: 00:03:31:03 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Various - 19 June 2006/ File RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST New York, 19 June 2006 1. Neue Gallery in New york City 2. Sign at entrance of gallery 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Gutterman, deputy director of Neue Gallery: "We are thrilled to have this painting 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I', it is a major work of the 20th century and it is really our 'Mona Lisa' and it will bring the Neue Gallery to a whole new level." 4. Area of gallery where the painting will be placed on display 5. Area of gallery displaying a painting by Gustav Klimt 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Gutterman, deputy director of Neue Gallery: "This painting bridges the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of style, it is a portrait that is was made over the course of three years by Klimt and is really considered one of its great masterpieces." FILE - Los Angeles, 4 April 2006 7. Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann and her lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg in front of Klimt painting "Adele Bloch-Bauer I". 8. Altmann 9. Painting and Altmann and her lawyer 10. Cameraman 11. Altmann looks at painting 12. Klimt exhibit sign 13. Still of Adele Bloch-Bauer 14. Altmann in front of painting 15. Altmann leaving Klimt exhibit STORYLINE A gold-encrusted portrait by Gustav Klimt that was at the heart of a battle over Nazi-looted art has been purchased for a record price in the US. The 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer - one of the world's most recognisable paintings - was purchased by a New York museum co-founded by cosmetics mogul Ronald S. Lauder, the seller's attorney confirmed on Sunday. The attorney refused to disclose the price but said it eclipsed the record of 104.1 (m) million US dollars paid at auction for Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)." The New York Times, citing experts familiar with the negotiations, reported the portrait sold for 135 (m) million US dollars. The "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" painting will head to the Neue Galerie, a museum of German and Austrian art in New York. "It is really our 'Mona Lisa' and it will bring the Neue Gallery to a whole new level," deputy director Scott Gutterman told AP Television News. The painting was sold by Bloch-Bauer's niece, Maria Altmann, and her family. The 90-year-old was a newlywed when she watched the Nazis seize power in 1938 and steal the portrait and four other Klimts from her aunt and uncle's home. Since then, the portrait has primarily been in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna, near Klimt's famous painting "The Kiss". Altmann feared she had no hope of recovering the collection until a 1998 law in Austria required museums to return art seized by the Nazis. Still, the Los Angeles resident battled against the Austrian government for seven years to recover the painting. In a statement released by the family, Altmann said it was "important for the heirs and for my aunt Adele that her work be displayed in a museum".

NAME: US NAZIART 080604N TAPE: EF04/0598 IN_TIME: 10:09:16:20 DURATION: 00:02:09:21 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: California - 7 June 2004/ Recent RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST APTN Recent file 1. Various of the Supreme Court of the United States AP Photos - No Access Canada / Internet 2. Maria Altmann with Klimt print in her living room 3. Altmann looking at Klimt portrait of her Aunt, Adele Bloch Bauer APTN File 4. Nazi officers at rally, pan from truck to people 5. American soldiers looking at piled up corpses at concentration camp 6. Soldiers looking at looted gold, jewelry and art work APTN Los Angeles, California - 7 June 2004 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Altmann, claimant: "You see the case as you know was not whose right and whose not right. The case was strictly - do I have the right to go to court in the United States against Austria was strictly the case of jurisdiction. So I do not think that the Austrians would be as blind as letting it to go to trial in the United States because it would bring out every detail of all the deceiving and lying that has been going on over the past years, which has never really come out in the open. They kept denying it. But at trial, a court case would bring it into the open." 7. Various of Klimt reproductions 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Altmann, claimant: "Excited is an understatement. I couldn't believe it because I convinced myself that I wouldn't win." 9. Klimt reproduction of "The Gold Portrait" - Maria's aunt STORYLINE The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Americans can sue foreign governments over looted art, stolen property and war crimes dating to the 1930s. The ruling came in a case involving an elderly California woman who is trying to get back 150 (M) million US dollars worth of paintings stolen by the Nazis more than 65 years ago. The justices said that the governments were not necessarily protected from lawsuits in US courts over old claims. But those claims could still face stumbling blocks. Maria Altmann, who fled Austria, had attended the Supreme Court argument. The 88-year-old said the court had been one of her last hopes for the return of six Gustav Klimt paintings, including two colourful, Impressionistic portraits of her aunt. Celebrating the outcome, Altmann admitted that over the years, she had prepared herself for a defeat, adding she now believed the court case would bring to the open what she considered years of "deceiving and lying" by the Austrian authorities. Nazis looted the possessions of Altmann's wealthy Jewish family, including the prized Klimt paintings that now hang in the Austrian Gallery. She and her husband escaped to America after she had been detained and her husband imprisoned in labour camp. She filed a lawsuit against the Austrian government in federal court in California and won rulings that allowed her to pursue the case. Justices agreed 6-3, a ruling that emboldens victims of wartime atrocities to pursue lawsuits. Women who claim they were used as sex slaves during World War II have sued Japan and Holocaust survivors and heirs have brought a case against the French national railroad for transporting more than 70-thousand Jews and others to Nazi concentration camps. Those cases are pending at the Supreme Court and will likely be sent back to lower courts in light of Monday's decision. Commenting for the Austrian government, a spokesman said the ruling did not change the Austrian position that the paintings were given to the state museum and not confiscated by the Nazis. Austria contends rightful ownership of the paintings, because Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, asked that the art should be donated to the government gallery before her death in 1925. Klimt, an Austrian impressionist who died in 1918, founded the Vienna Secession art movement. Last November, his "The Villa at Attersee", a lush 1917 landscape, sold at auction in New York for 29 point one (M) million dollars. At issue in Monday's case was a 1976 law that spelled out when other countries can be sued in the United States. The law was based on a 1952 State Department policy. The Supreme Court ruled that the law is retroactive, and can be used to bring old claims. It is not clear if the court's decision will lead to many successes in old cases. A Bush administration lawyer had told justices that it would be unprecedented to have US judges resolving lawsuits against foreign countries over expropriated property. The administration argued it would harm America's relations with those countries.

Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool; Music overlaid over following sequence ENGLAND: Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: INT General views Gustav Klimt paintings on display in Tate exhibition ENDS

BARCELONA, SPAIN - JUNE 02: People visit 'Klimt: The Immersive Experience' and participate in an immersive 360 room that features a 35-minute presentation on the work of the painter Gustav Klimt at IDEAL Centre d’Arts Digitals de Barcelona on June 2, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. (Footage by Xavi Torrent/Getty Images)

TAPE: EF03/0995 IN_TIME: 00:50:53 DURATION: 2:25 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, 5 Nov 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Sotheby'a auction room 2. Paintings on rotation on platform for audience to view 4. Cezanne's painting 5. Close up of painting 6. "Nympheus" by Claude Monet 7. Monet painting 8. "Schokko" by Alexej Von Jawlensky 9. "Nu Couche" by Pablo Picasso 10. "Landhaus Am Attersee" painting by Gustav Klimt 11. "Landhaus Am Attersee" sold for 29 (m) million dollars, the most expensive selling painting of the night 12. "Grande Femme Debout IV" sculpture by Alberto Giacometti 13. "Grande Femme Debout IV" on screen 14. Bidder 15. Various of auction 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman,Co-Chair of the Sotheby's Sale: "We are thrilled with the results of the sale. The evening itself we sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million. That was right within our expected range. We set six new artists records. And the top lot for 29 (m) million dollars was an extraordinary landscape by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian secessionist. We are just thrilled with the results. It was a predominantly American bidding. I'd say 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. And, you know, we saw this tremendous demand for top quality pictures." 17. Auction 18. Wide of auction STORYLINE: Six new artist records were set at the Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on Wednesday. According to Dave Norman, co-chair of the sale, the auction house sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million US dollars. The top lot for 29 (m) million US dollars was a landscape by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Other paintings at the show included Claude Monet's ""Nympheus", Alberto Giacometti's sculpture "Grande Femme Debout IV, and Pablo Picasso's drawing "Nu Couche". Norman said that the recent improvement in the Dow and the markets made a positive impact on the auction house and that around 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. The Sotheby's auction came a day after three world records were set at Christie's auction house in New York at the evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art.

TAPE: EF03/0995 IN_TIME: 00:50:53 DURATION: 2:25 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, 5 Nov 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Sotheby'a auction room 2. Paintings on rotation on platform for audience to view 4. Cezanne's painting 5. Close up of painting 6. "Nympheus" by Claude Monet 7. Monet painting 8. "Schokko" by Alexej Von Jawlensky 9. "Nu Couche" by Pablo Picasso 10. "Landhaus Am Attersee" painting by Gustav Klimt 11. "Landhaus Am Attersee" sold for 29 (m) million dollars, the most expensive selling painting of the night 12. "Grande Femme Debout IV" sculpture by Alberto Giacometti 13. "Grande Femme Debout IV" on screen 14. Bidder 15. Various of auction 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman,Co-Chair of the Sotheby's Sale: "We are thrilled with the results of the sale. The evening itself we sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million. That was right within our expected range. We set six new artists records. And the top lot for 29 (m) million dollars was an extraordinary landscape by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian secessionist. We are just thrilled with the results. It was a predominantly American bidding. I'd say 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. And, you know, we saw this tremendous demand for top quality pictures." 17. Auction 18. Wide of auction STORYLINE: Six new artist records were set at the Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on Wednesday. According to Dave Norman, co-chair of the sale, the auction house sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million US dollars. The top lot for 29 (m) million US dollars was a landscape by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Other paintings at the show included Claude Monet's ""Nympheus", Alberto Giacometti's sculpture "Grande Femme Debout IV, and Pablo Picasso's drawing "Nu Couche". Norman said that the recent improvement in the Dow and the markets made a positive impact on the auction house and that around 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. The Sotheby's auction came a day after three world records were set at Christie's auction house in New York at the evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art.

A painting found stashed inside a wall at an Italian museum has been confirmed as the stolen Portrait of a Lady by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt prosecutors said on Friday two decades after the artwork went missing (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

TAPE: EF03/0995 IN_TIME: 00:50:53 DURATION: 2:25 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, 5 Nov 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Sotheby'a auction room 2. Paintings on rotation on platform for audience to view 4. Cezanne's painting 5. Close up of painting 6. "Nympheus" by Claude Monet 7. Monet painting 8. "Schokko" by Alexej Von Jawlensky 9. "Nu Couche" by Pablo Picasso 10. "Landhaus Am Attersee" painting by Gustav Klimt 11. "Landhaus Am Attersee" sold for 29 (m) million dollars, the most expensive selling painting of the night 12. "Grande Femme Debout IV" sculpture by Alberto Giacometti 13. "Grande Femme Debout IV" on screen 14. Bidder 15. Various of auction 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Norman,Co-Chair of the Sotheby's Sale: "We are thrilled with the results of the sale. The evening itself we sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million. That was right within our expected range. We set six new artists records. And the top lot for 29 (m) million dollars was an extraordinary landscape by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian secessionist. We are just thrilled with the results. It was a predominantly American bidding. I'd say 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. And, you know, we saw this tremendous demand for top quality pictures." 17. Auction 18. Wide of auction STORYLINE: Six new artist records were set at the Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on Wednesday. According to Dave Norman, co-chair of the sale, the auction house sold 40 lots for approximately 125 (m) million US dollars. The top lot for 29 (m) million US dollars was a landscape by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Other paintings at the show included Claude Monet's ""Nympheus", Alberto Giacometti's sculpture "Grande Femme Debout IV, and Pablo Picasso's drawing "Nu Couche". Norman said that the recent improvement in the Dow and the markets made a positive impact on the auction house and that around 60 percent of the highest selling lots went to American private collectors. The Sotheby's auction came a day after three world records were set at Christie's auction house in New York at the evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art.

Drawing Replica of Gustav Klimt's 'Danae'

TAPE: EF04/0236 IN_TIME: 10:17:30:05 DURATION: 00:02:27:14 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Washington DC, 24 Feb 2004/ File SHOTLIST: APTN Washington DC - 24 February 2004 1. Maria Altmann in Representative Henry Waxman''''''''s (Democrat of California) office 2. Family members in office 3. Rep. Henry Waxman (Democrat of California) brings in Altmann 4. Various of Altmann and lawyers in meeting AP Photos - No Access Internet File 5. Altmann with Klimt print in her living room 6. Altmann looking at Klimt portrait of her Aunt, Adele Bloch Bauer APTN Washington DC - 24 February 2004 7. Altmann walking in halls with lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Altmann, Niece of Adele Bloch Bauer: "It''''''''s not a question of money, I mean, believe me I wouldn''''''''t hang those paintings in my house. It''''''''s simply a question that I am now so frightfully hurt and angry that they base all those things on things that are not true. And that they would get away with this is just injustice. It bothers me." APTN File 9. Nazi SS officers at rally 10. American soldiers looking at piled up corpses at concentration camp 11. Soldiers looking at looted gold, jewelry and art work Washington DC - 24 February 2004 12. SOUNDBITE (English) E. Randol Schoenberg, lawyer for Maria Altmann: "I know that the other side has argued that if you open up this can of worms you will have all these sorts of cases that will come into US courts. I don''''''''t believe that is true, I think fundamentally this is about the right of a US citizen to obtain justice in a court of her country against a foreign state in this case that is holding on illegally to her family''''''''s paintings." 13. Schoenberg speaking to reporter APTN File 14. Various exteriors of Supreme Court of the United States STORYLINE: When she looks at the print that hangs on her living room wall, Maria Altmann can''''''''t help but wince and recall when she used to gaze upon the real thing, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt''''''''s "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer." The painting, portraying the haunting face of an attractive woman encased in triangles of splendid gold, is considered one of Klimt''''''''s best. Altmann, who is Adele Bloch Bauer''''''''s niece, used to see it hanging in her aunt''''''''s home in Vienna when she was young. It and five other Klimt paintings were seized by the Nazis soon after they came to power in Austria in 1938. The works, now worth as much as 150 (m) million US dollars, now hang in the Austrian Gallery, and Altmann is going to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to try to get them back. But the retired operator of a Beverly Hills clothing boutique doubts she''''''''ll live long enough to see the paintings hang in her Los Angeles home, even if the court rules in her favour. The issue before the court next week is whether Altmann has the right to bring a lawsuit in a US court against the Austrian government seeking the return of her aunt''''''''s paintings. After a California court ruled in her favour, the Supreme Court agreed to consider Austria''''''''s appeal. The outcome could have broad implications for other cases, including two pending Supreme Court appeals that involve a lawsuit against Japan by women who claim they were used as sex slaves during World War II, and a suit by Holocaust survivors and heirs against the French national railroad for transporting more than 70-thousand Jews and others to Nazi concentration camps. Altmann''''''''s lawyer, E. Randol Schoenberg, said his client''''''''s case is simple: "It''''''''s art work that was looted by the Nazis, and US law states that it must be given back." But an attorney for Austria said Altmann''''''''s aunt clearly intended for the Austrian Gallery to have the paintings and, in any case, that any conflict should be settled in that country''''''''s courts. Altmann, whose five siblings and husband are dead, said she would have brought suit in Austria but the cost of doing so was prohibitively expensive. If she gets the paintings back, she would like to see them placed in either a US or Canadian museum.

Gustav Klimt artworks returned to original owner; Other Klimt paintings on display (4 shots) Margie Crain (Daughter of Maria Altmann) interview SOT - originally my mother went to Austrian govt and said they could keep gold portrait but would like back the three landscapes / they refused her request, so it was big mistake Klimt painting on display TILT DOWN to man looking at it Reporter to camera Marie Altmann along at gallery with Randol Schoenberg (Altmann family lawyer) PAN Randol Schoenberg (Altmann family lawyer) interview SOT - we've proven that you can recover artwork that was stolen / it has to give museums and collectors heart / in the end its possible Close Shot Maria Altmann standing in front of painting 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I' PULL OUT Maria Altmann speaking SOT - they were hanging up on walls, they didn't seem like large paintings to me then / maybe they grew / they are happier here Margie Crain (Daughter of Maria Altmann) interview SOT - we're going to sell them / maybe a museum will buy them, somewhere they could be on public display Two men posing beside painting 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I' PULL OUT as being photographed People looking at paintings (2 shots) Clean Feed Tape = D0607733 OR D0607734 00:29:51:02 - 00:33:59:12 FX/Mix Programme as Broadcast Tape = D0607732 Order Ref: T05040634