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  2. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in ...

  3. Sep 20, 2016 · The painting later became an icon of justice – the 2015 film Woman in Gold is the Hollywood version of the tale of the painting’s confiscation from the Jewish Bloch-Bauer family during World...

  4. Learn about Klimt's masterpiece of the Golden Style, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, and its historic provenance. Watch a video by Neue Galerie director Renée Price on the painting and its restitution to the heirs.

  5. May 26, 2024 · Woman in Gold. Inspired by his visit to Ravenna’s Byzantine gold mosaics, Gustav Klimt was fully immersed in his so-called “Golden Phase” when he began painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The aptly nicknamed Woman in Gold or Lady in Gold epitomizes the multifaceted aesthetic and extremely laborious process of Klimt’s “Golden ...

  6. Jun 14, 2016 · The story of Gustav Klimts Adele Bloch-Bauer, the woman in gold. Christie’s role in the remarkable restitution story behind Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece, Adele Bloch-Bauer I — and how, a century after it’s creation, it became the most valuable painting ever sold. Storylines; 20th & 21st Century Art; 15 June 2016

  7. The influence of Egyptian art on Klimt is undoubtedly at work in this portrait of the wife of the industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. He twice commissioned Klimt to paint a portrait of Adele.

  8. May 25, 2012 · A famous painting of a woman in gold, commissioned by a wealthy sugar industrialist for his wife. Learn about the scandalous history of this artwork, from its creation in 1907 to its auction in 2006.