Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million. It is currently on offer at an art fair but even ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time ...

A striking early portrait by Gustav Klimt depicting Ghanaian Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona may soon find a home in a ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting?

The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it ...

A painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt, lost since World War II and recently restituted, is on offer at TEFAF.

click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait.

After cleaning it, however, there was no doubt that it was Klimt's lost painting of a West African prince from what is now Ghana. The Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of Austria's most ...