Another reason to tax the rich. Someone just paid more than 236 million dollars for a painting.

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8. Speaking of Klimt, Oprah Winfrey sold a Gustav Klimt painting for $150 million in 2016.

The Gustav Klimt Painting Oprah Reportedly Sold for $150M Has Quite a Story

The portrait began with a commission by the husband of the artist's alleged lover, and underwent a Nazi theft, a legal feud and a deal brokered by Larry Gagosian for Winfrey that is likely the biggest private sale of a single artwork in 2016.

The OWN network founder bought "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" in 2006 for $87.9 million, but Winfrey decided to sell the painting for $150 million after its value skyrocketed by 71 percent.

Winfrey's recently sold 1912 painting by early 20th century Austrian artist Klimt depicts Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the wife of a rich industrialist from Vienna, according to the MoMA. Nazis stole the painting in 1938 along with other artworks that belonged to the family, and the painting was not returned to the Bloch-Bauer heirs until 2006 following legal battles with the Austrian government.

Those legal battles were translated into the 2015 drama film "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren, about a Jewish refugee, Maria Altmann, who fought the Austrian government to recover the stolen painting of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/gustav-klimt-painting-oprah-reportedly-sold-150m-has-a-story-974134/