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How much is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I worth?

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I last sold for $135 million in a private sale in 2006. It is now held by the Neue Galerie, New York, so it is not for sale. Klimt's highest documented sale is higher: $236.4 million for Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, in 2025.

Artist: Gustav Klimt
Date: 1907
Medium: Oil and gold on canvas
Held by: Neue Galerie, New York

Sold for$135MPrivate sale · 2006

About the painting

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941, and displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere. The portrait is the final and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. It was the first of two depictions of Adele by Klimt—the second was completed in 1912; these were two of several works by the artist that the Bloch-Bauer family owned.

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Klimt next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Klimt: $236.4 million for Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, in 2025.

Leonardo$450MSalvator Mundi · 2017
Klimt$236MPortrait of Elisabeth Lederer · 2025
Rembrandt$199MThe Standard Bearer · 2022
Seurat$149MLes Poseuses, Ensemble · 2022
Cézanne$138MLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire · 2022
Munch$120MThe Scream · 2012
Van Gogh$117MVerger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses) · 2022
Monet$111MMeules (Haystacks) · 2019
Gauguin$106MMaternité II · 2022

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

Why it has no price

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is held by the Neue Galerie, New York. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.

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Questions

How much is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I worth?

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I last sold for $135 million in a private sale in 2006. It is now held by the Neue Galerie, New York, so it is not for sale. Klimt's highest documented sale is higher: $236.4 million for Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, in 2025.

Is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for sale?

No. It is held by the Neue Galerie, New York. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.

What is Klimt's most expensive work?

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby's New York in 2025. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

When did Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I last sell?

It sold in a private sale in 2006 for $135 million.

Where is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I?

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907, oil and gold on canvas) is held by the Neue Galerie, New York.