“Of course that’s crazy!” – This is how Hans-Peter Wipplinger, director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna’s Museum Quarter, commented on Gustav Klimt’s Night on Wednesday morning Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in New York achieved a record price of $236 million. He told the APA that breaking the 200 million barrier “very surprised” him. “The surcharge is extremely high. This is an investment. The gambling mentality has taken hold.”
