The sale price for Klimt's painting was at the lower end of an expected range of €30 million - €50 million, and failed to reach the same heights as Klimt's final work "Dame mit Fächer", which broke the European auction record last year.
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00:00 A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was thought to be lost for a hundred
00:07 years has been sold at auction in Vienna.
00:11 The unfinished work, "Portrait of Fräulein Lisa" went to an unidentified buyer for 30
00:17 million euros.
00:20 The painting was commissioned by a family of Jewish industrialists in 1917, a year before
00:26 Klimt's death.
00:28 The sale price set an art auction record for Austria.
00:32 (whooshing)