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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 ...
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
May 26, 2024 · The Woman in Gold was exhibited at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna for 60 years, which proudly advertised it as “the Austrian Mona Lisa.” Meanwhile, Ferdinand’s living relatives tried and failed to reclaim the Bloch-Bauer fortune—until the 1998 Art Restitution Law was enacted in Austria.
Apr 2, 2015 · Jewish philanthropist Ronald Lauder bought the Woman in Gold portrait for $135 million to display at his museum, the Neue Galerie in New York. The other Klimt paintings sold for another $192...
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Mar 12, 2024 · Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” {also called “The Woman (or Lady) in Gold”} was exhibited at the Belvedere from the end of World War II until 2006, when it was returned to Adele’s niece, then sold for the then-record price of $135 million, and finally placed on permanent display in New York’s Neue Galerie.
Apr 1, 2015 · For five decades, the Woman in Gold hung at the Belvedere museum in Vienna. In 1998 a law was enacted for the restitution of more than 100,000 pieces of art looted by the Nazis. The...
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Apr 2, 2015 · Gustav Klimt's painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer is the centerpiece of a new show at Neue Galerie, which coincides with the release of the film Woman in Gold. We talk with museum director Renee Price ...
