“To speak the truth is to shine and burn,” Gustav Klimt inscribed ... to overhype this paragon of Klimt’s ‘golden phase.’ This icon of Art Nouveau dynamism and dazzle was savvily ...

A long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has finally reappeared in Austria decades after it disappeared around the 1940s. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist artist, primarily known for his paintings ...

The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ... according to Sotheby’s. A work the artist had started a year prior, in 1917, “Dame mit Fächer” is rendered ...

When it goes to auction later this month, Gustav Klimt’s final artwork ... pheasant featured in the work are “all ubiquitous symbols of good fortune in East Asian art.” ...

The last portrait Gustav Klimt ever painted ... the record for any work of art sold at auction in Europe, and "Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas" by Claude Monet for $80.4 million in June 2008, which ...

Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss is a deceptively simple portrait ... whom he had previously depicted in a portrait. How do you buy a work of art that hasn’t even been finished?

"As a key figure of Viennese Art Nouveau, Gustav Klimt epitomizes fin de siècle Austrian Modernism more than any other artist. His work, particularly his portraits of successful women from the ...

Conclusion Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” is a masterpiece that encapsulates the profound influence of Byzantine art on his work. Through the use of gold leaf, symbolic iconography, and intricate ...

The art of Gustav Klimt makes me feel as though I ... s head looks compared with what’s growing out of it. In Klimt’s other work of this era, little is straight and absolutely nothing is ...

Case in point: renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt loved cats so much that he ... knowing if Klimt did use cat pee as a fixative on his work. There’s no scientific proof that feline urine ...

A 1918 masterpiece by Gustav Klimt that was on the artist’s easel ... was also the highest price realized for a work of art at auction in Europe, Sotheby’s said. The final result jumped ...

The last portrait painted by Gustav Klimt will carry ... she is Johanna Staude, one of Klimt’s favourite models). Klimt was a much in demand portrait artist at the time, commissioned by the ...