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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.
Visitors from around the globe flock to Neue Galerie New York to see a very special lady, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), popularly referred to as the “Woman in Gold.” Few paintings have captured the public’s imagination so thoroughly.
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...
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.
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’.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer (de), a Jewish banker and sugar producer.
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
Gustav Klimt’s 1907 "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" is his most famous portrait and the pinnacle of his “Golden Style.” It can be read as a secular icon and includes African, Asian, Byzantine,...
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. This painting, made at the height of Klimt's career, prompted critics to coin the phrase 'Mehr Blech wie Bloch', a pun meaning more brass (i.e., money ...
An article on Tuesday about the Gustav Klimt painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which was looted by the Nazis and is a subject of the new film “Woman in Gold,” about the efforts of Ms. Bloch ...