DETROIT - Some of his most famous paintings are of women. The art of Gustav Klimt is now on display at the “Immersive Klimt” floor-to-ceiling exhibition in downtown Detroit. Open through Oct ...

If you were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the company of, say, a teenage daughter or niece, you might pause before this Gustav Klimt painting, “Hope, II,” and sigh.

If you were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the company of, say, a teenage daughter or niece, you might pause before this Gustav Klimt painting, “Hope, II,” and sigh.

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life (1910/11). ©Leopold Museum, Vienna. Photo Courtesy of M. Thumberger.

Klimt painted “Death and Life” in 1910 and reworked in 1912-1913 and again in 1915-1916. It depicts Death on the left, and Life – men, women and children – on the right.

The final price topped Klimt’s previous auction high of $104.6 million, given in November for the 1903 landscape “Birch Forest,” at Christie’s, in New York.