Klimt

One flowing dress in blue had a shimmering silver surface that looked like a painting from Klimt.

“A few days earlier, I had seen a painting by Gustav Klimt,” Mouchas tells The Daily Beast by email.

A de Kooning sold for $137.5 million in the same bullish, pre-recession year; a Klimt, too, for $135 million.

Maria Altmann famously won back prized Klimt paintings that were stolen from her Jewish family by the Nazis.