Klimt paintings looted by Nazis to be sold at Christie's

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.

Christie’s has not determined whether the works – three landscapes and a portrait worth an estimated $100m (€77.8m) – will be auctioned or sold privately, Christie’s president Marc Porter was quoted as telling today’s edition of the New York Times.