Helen Mirren has always eased into typically male roles, and is still doing so at 70, she tells Helen Barlow

Four of five oil paintings by Gustav Klimt that were the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and the artworks’ Jewish heirs will be heading to Christie's for sale this autumn, the auction house said.

AN oil and gold-encrusted portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for a record-breaking amount by a New York museum.

AUSTRIA’S culture minister yesterday agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five Gustav Klimt paintings worth over €125 million to a Californian woman whose family had them stolen by the Nazis.

Austria’s culture minister today agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family.