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for Luxury Collectibles

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Fine Art

A collector who made headlines on both sides of the market: she bought one of Gustav Klimt's two portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer at Christie's in 2006, then sold it privately a decade later at a large profit.

Realized at sale$87.9M
Estimated today modeled~$98M
+11%
Modeled value over timemodeled

Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.

A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.

Documented sales

Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” (1912)
Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” (1912) Confirmed
Christie's·Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, New York · Nov 8, 2006
A world auction record for Klimt at the time. Winfrey, revealed years later as the buyer, sold it privately in 2016 for a reported ~$150m.
artnet News Image: Wikimedia Commons
Realized$87,936,000 (~$87.9m)

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
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Portrait: aphrodite-in-nyc / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.