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FILE - This is a Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, file photo of Sotheby's auction house staff as they pose for photographers with Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's "Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)" during a photocall at their premises in London. The exuberant floral landscape by Gustav Klimt has sold at auction for almost 48 million pounds _ the third-highest price ever paid for an artwork in Europe. "Bauerngarten (Flower Garden)" went under the hammer for 47.9 million ($59.3 million) at Sotheby's in London. Sotheby's Europe chairwoman Helena Newman said the painting was "one of the artist's greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

FILE - This is a Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, file photo of Sotheby's auction house staff as they pose for photographers with Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's "Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)" during a photocall at their premises in London. The exuberant floral landscape by Gustav Klimt has sold at auction for almost 48 million pounds _ the third-highest price ever paid for an artwork in Europe. "Bauerngarten (Flower Garden)" went under the hammer for 47.9 million ($59.3 million) at Sotheby's in London. Sotheby's Europe chairwoman Helena Newman said the painting was "one of the artist's greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

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