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Klimt Landscape That Once Made Auction History Could Net $80M at Christie’s

The work previously sold at auction for the then-record sum of $14.7 million.

Gustav Klimt, Litzlbergkeller (1915–16). Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd. 2026.

by Min Chen Oct 26, 2026

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Another heavyweight has entered the ring for New York’s marquee auction week in November. A luminous landscape by Gustav Klimt with a storied history is anchoring Christie’s 20th-century sale, arriving with a $60 million–$80 million estimate.

Litzlbergkeller (1915–16) offers a tranquil view of Lake Attersee in the Austrian countryside, where the painter summered from 1900 until his death in 1918. It homes in on a brewery and inn, the Litzlberg Cellar , which is enveloped by the surrounding foliage rendered in flat planes and shades of green, applied with delicate stippling across the canvas.…