![]() ![]() ![]() The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait. “Klimt’s mosaic of Jewish patrons and friends would be pried apart, piece by piece, by men incapable of creating beauty but determined to steal it.”īook Jacket Synopsis: “The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer one of the most emblematic portraits of its time of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it the notorious artist who painted it the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it and the strange twisted fate that befell it. ![]()
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