Artist in Focus: Klimt’s Women
on demandINTRODUCTION
One of Gustav Klimt’s late works, Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, will head to auction on April 24th at Vienna’s auction house im Kinsky. In advance of the sale, join us for a live, online evening lecture. This lecture is now on demand and available until 30 April.
Klimt was one of the most versatile and sought-after artists of his day, and gained great fame for his magnificent portraits of Vienna’s society women, from Adele Bloch-Bauer and Hermine Gallia to Eugenia Primavesi and Sonja Knips. His iconic depictions of these fashionable and often formidable women have captured the attention of not only the public but also prolific collectors. In 2006 his portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer sold in the United States for the astronomical sum of $135 million, making it at that time the highest sum in history ever paid for a painting, a story immortalised in the film The Woman in Gold. In April 2024 his Portrait of Fräulein Lieser will head to auction, with an estimate of €30–€50 million. This extraordinarily vibrant painting, whose subject stands enveloped in a rich cloak adorned with flowers, was found partially unfinished in Klimt’s studio after his death in 1918 and then passed to the Lieser family. Its location was then unknown for many years and it was considered lost, until its recent rediscovery in a private Austrian collection.
We examine these and other portraits in the context of Klimt’s life and work, his relationships with women, and more broadly within the socio-historical context of fin de siècle Vienna.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
This lecture is now on demand and available until 30 April.
Further Information
1. BOOK.
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