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Adele Bloch-Bauer possesses the rare distinction as the only person Klimt ever painted twice. In 2006, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York by Ronald Lauder for a reported US $135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever ...
Dec 11, 2023 · Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is one of the most recognizable portraits in art history today. It epitomizes the opulent, ornamental style of the Vienna Secession. Also it highlights the critical role of Jewish patrons of the arts—including women like Adele Bloch-Bauer—in shaping the aesthetics of Modernism.
Estates of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, and the Estée Lauder Fund. Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (1907) is considered a masterpiece of Klimt’s so-called “Golden Style.”. Few paintings have captured the public's imagination as thoroughly as the Woman in Gold.
Sep 20, 2016 · Adele Bloch-Bauer was an avid art patron at the centre of Vienna’s cultural life. And when she sat for a portrait by Gustav Klimt, she was transformed into an icon, writes Kimberly Bradley.
The completed portrait is a masterpiece of Klimt's "Golden Style." Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I was first publicly displayed in Mannheim the year it was finished, and at the 1908...
Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) was a Viennese socialite, salon hostess, and patron of the arts from Austria-Hungary. A Jewish woman, she is most well known for being the subject of two of artist Gustav Klimt 's paintings: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, and the fate of ...
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.
