portrait
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This includes a career-spanning survey at London’s National Portrait Gallery that will travel to Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy, as well as exhibitions in Kassel, Germany, and Trondheim, Norway.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Bought for $236.4 million, "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt became the second most expensive work ever sold at auction.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
He searched the archives of an auction in 1940 where part of the looted Goudstikker collection went under the hammer and found item number 92: "Portrait of a Young Girl" by Toon Kelder.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
His absence dominates the Christmas dinner scene in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” as conflicting views are expressed by the guests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
She ran the fingers of her left hand through my hair and stared at the Bahrami Family Portrait Gallery until she found a photo of my tenth birthday party.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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