Oprah Winfrey pulled off one of the biggest private art
deals of 2016.
Bloomberg reports the talk show legend sold a painting
by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt for $150 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer.
Already one of the world's richest people with a net
worth of $2.9 billion, Winfrey originally purchased the "Portrait of Adele
Bloch-Bauer" for $87.9 million at a Christie's auction in 2006.
Klimt created the painting in 1912 and it depicts the
wife of an art patron and industrialist in Vienna.
The 19th-century painter was a prominent member of the
Vienna Secession movement.
Winfrey loaned the painting anonymously to New York
City's Museum of Modern Art in 2014, Business Insider reports.
The painting, which is currently on display in the Neue
Galerie museum for Austrian and German art is being shown next to its
predecessor, the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I."
The painting was originally discovered as part of a
series of paintings stolen by the Nazis during World War II, but given back to
surviving members of the Bloch-Bauer family in 2006.
This is hardly Oprah's first major art sale. She
unloaded a number of paintings from her collection in 2015.
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