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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912
Gustav Klimt
Oil on canvas
The is the second of two portraits Klimt painted of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), a Viennese socialite and patron of the arts. The two met in the late 1890s and Klimt joined the circle of writers, musicians, artists and politicians she hosted at her salon. Unlike Klimt's first portrait of Bauer in which he used rich golds inspired by Byzantine mosaics, here he depicts her full-length and proudly erect, her head framed by a broad-brimmed black hat. He sets her monochromatic clothes against colourful blocks of embroidered Chinese fabrics and carpet, to create a dizzying surface of patterns.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery
Included in the April 20th, 2013 Art Auction "Collector's Choice," to benefit Young Audiences of Western New York. www.yawny.org/collectors
Adele Henderson (b 1955)
Perception of Risk December 2009, 2010
2 color lithograph (hand printed), edition of 12
Value: $400