Ahead of the US$32 million sale of a Gustav Klimt portrait unseen for 100 years, a claimant to its ownership, reportedly a potential heir to the legal successor of its original owner, came forward.
Klimt s "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" was thought to be lost for the last eighty-odd years, stolen by the Nazis, burned, whatever. Last January, it popped up in Vienna.