According to http://www.overstockart.com/klimtgallery.html a portrait by Gustav Klimt: "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I" was sold for $135 million. Why are Gustav Klimt paintings so expensive all of a suden?
2007-01-12 00:12:23 · 8 answers · asked by amitai 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
He's hot. Strikes a modern chord. Tres chic, le freak!
2007-01-12 00:46:08 · answer #1 · answered by Plaxico Domingo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Supply and demand. There are few enough Klimts to go around, so the market responds with higher prices.
2007-01-12 09:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by DennisEastDennis 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was a master! A part of art history
2007-01-12 10:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by Alexa K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because too many people don't know what are they can do with the money
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Pablo H
2007-01-16 13:34:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's ever in demand. he did use gold for some of the well known ones..eg. 'the lovers'
2007-01-13 18:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by irulan10191 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
supply and demand, people are willing to pay lots of money for it, etc, and perhaps because he used gold leaf too
2007-01-12 17:58:58 · answer #6 · answered by Marcelo Halmen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay you got your answers
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2007-01-17 19:24:18 · answer #7 · answered by secret society 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people are willing to pay high prices for them.
2007-01-12 12:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by NM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋