candidate: This sale would make the painting the second most expensive ever sold , privately or at auction , exceeding the sale of Gustav Klimt 's 1907 " Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I " to Ronald Lauder , heir to the Estée Lauder Companies fortune , by around five million dollars , trailing only the sale of " The Card Players " to the Royal Family of Qatar reportedly for between $ 250 to $ 300 million .