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'A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting.

The portrait, of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist and the hostess of a prominent Vienna salon, is considered one of the artist's masterpieces.'

'The New York Times, just today. I say why not and right on!

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jb said:

Hey DJ - love Klimt - 'bout time he got some respect. Nice to see the humanities are still important.

check it out:

http://www.colorblindpainter.com

-jb

djmisc said:

you know the expression: She looks like a hundred and thirty five million bucks!

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