“Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt, limited edition fine art giclée reproduction

"It is the highest sum ever paid for a painting," the New York Times enthusiastically reported in June 2006. For the record sum of $135 million, cosmetics manufacturer Ronald Lauder acquired Gustav Klimt's famous oil painting "Adele Bloch-Bauer I"—also known as "The Woman in Gold"—for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, New York. The Art Nouveau icon had once hung as an inalienable piece of Austrian cultural heritage, alongside "The Kiss" and other masterpieces by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, in Vienna's Belvedere Palace. After years of legal battles, it was returned to the descendants of its original owners. This marked the first time such a high-profile Klimt painting had entered the art market—and immediately eclipsed the previous record of $104.1 million for a Picasso painting.