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The Austrian Symbolist painter is best-known for his work on gold-leaf-encrusted canvases such as The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. The new rate of £13.85 an hour will ...

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Famous artist Gustav Klimt, who was born in Austria, created "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" in 1907. The image, which is also referred to as the "Lady in Gold" or the "Woman in Gold," shows ...

Other notable works include The Kiss, painted in 1909 and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) that was sold for $87.9m (£69.55m at current rates) in New York in November 2006. He was a ...

Maria Altmann, niece of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, poses next to a reproduction of the Gustav ... [+] Klimt painting of her aunt Adele, in her home in Los Angeles. A federal judge recently ...

ever to appear at auction—alongside Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (sold in 2006 for $87.9 million) and Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet (sold in 1990 for $82.5 million ...

She subsequently sold the pictures, one of them–the famed Gold Portrait of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer–to Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million. Pillage and looting during warfare are not, of course, ...

Gustav Klimt made gold modern. At the turn of the 20th century, the Viennese artist captivated public attention with his sinuous depictions of women (and occasionally men) which he adorned with ...

1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” by James A. Mcneill Whistler (1871): And here's Whistler's Mother as Baddie Winkle in 2024: 5.Here's the OG "Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat" by Vincent ...

“The Kiss,” painted by Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, is one of the most celebrated works of art from the Viennese Secession movement.