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How much is The Kiss worth?

The Kiss is not for sale: it is held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Klimt's highest documented sale: $236.4 million for Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, at Sotheby's New York in 2025.

Artist: Gustav Klimt
Date: 1907–1908
Medium: Oil and gold leaf on canvas
Held by: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt's record$236MPortrait of Elisabeth Lederer · 2025

About the painting

The best-known work of Klimt's "Golden Phase," showing a couple embracing on a flowering meadow, wrapped in shimmering gold-leaf robes. It fuses Symbolism with the decorative richness of the Vienna Secession. It hangs in the Belvedere in Vienna.

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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

The Kiss is held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. 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 The Kiss worth?

The Kiss is not for sale: it is held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Klimt's highest documented sale: $236.4 million for Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, at Sotheby's New York in 2025.

Is The Kiss for sale?

No. It is held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. 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.

Where is The Kiss?

The Kiss (1907–1908, oil and gold leaf on canvas) is held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

Sources

$236.4 million, 2025: aljazeera.com

Researched October 2026 and checked against a second source. All famous painting prices

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