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The top 10 most expensive artworks ever auctioned
4. Adele Bloch-Bauer II by Gustav Klimt (£55.3m)
The woman in the painting was Adele Bloch-Bauer - the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Baue, a rich industrialist who sponsored the arts. This particular portrait by the revered Austrian symbolist painter went at Christie's New York for £55,307,080 ($87,936,000) back in 2006.
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