It's no secret that Oprah Winfrey has expensive taste — and her artwork is definitely no exception. In 2015, the star auctioned off "500 lots of English, French, and continental furniture, decorative arts, paintings, prints, drawings" and more, according to Artnet. Then in 2016, Oprah sold a single painting to a collector for a whopping $150 million. Per Bloomberg, it was one of the largest private art transactions of 2016. The painting, titled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," was created in 1912 by artist Gustav Klimt. Oprah purchased it back in 2006 for "only" $87.9 million. Two years beforehand, she reportedly even let the Museum of Modern Art display it for visitors. By the time she sold it, the painting's value had increased by a whopping 71 percent.
The first painting in Klimt's collection, which Oprah did not own, was sold for $135 million in 2006, which at that point was the most amount of money ever exchanged in art history. Oprah made $15 million more off of hers since it's such a classic portrait — or maybe it didn't hurt that Oprah was the one selling it.
