Oprah Winfrey sells painting for $150M
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Oprah Winfrey pulled off one of the biggest private art deals of 2016.
Bloomberg reports the talk show legend sold a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt for $150 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer.
Already one of the world's richest people with a net worth of $2.9 billion, Winfrey originally purchased the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" for $87.9 million at a Christie's auction in 2006.
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Klimt created the painting in 1912 and it depicts the wife of an art patron and industrialist in Vienna.
The 19th-century painter was a prominent member of the Vienna Secession movement.
Winfrey loaned the painting anonymously to New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 2014, Business Insider reports.
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The painting, which is currently on display in the Neue Galerie museum for Austrian and German art is being shown next to its predecessor, the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I."
The painting was originally discovered as part of a series of paintings stolen by the Nazis during World War II, but given back to surviving members of the Bloch-Bauer family in 2006.
This is hardly Oprah's first major art sale. She unloaded a number of paintings from her collection in 2015.