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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 ...
Sep 30, 2020 · The titular character in Woman in Gold is Adele Bloch-Bauer, whose husband, Czech sugar mogul Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, commissioned Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt to paint two...
Learn about the masterpiece of Gustav Klimt's 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 of the Jewish socialite.
May 26, 2024 · Today the Woman in Gold is on permanent display at the Neue Galerie in New York City alongside an impressive collection of German and Austrian art of the same period. Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is one of the most recognizable portraits in art history today.
Jun 14, 2016 · The story of Gustav Klimt’s 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
Sep 20, 2016 · The exhibition includes portraits of other women, but Adele remains the most iconic. It is she, as a ‘woman in gold’, who anchors the works that represent the apex of Klimt’s ‘golden phase’.
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.
