One of my favorite by Gustav Klimt would also be one of his most famous; called The Kiss. Very nice. I wouldn’t change a thing on the entire surface.
Trendy Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.
Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.
“Winfrey purchased the work at Christie’s on Nov. 8, 2006, for $87.9 million, an auction record for a work by Klimt that still stands, giving Winfrey a $62.1 million profit on the sale. It’s likely that this was the biggest private sale of a single artwork in 2016.”
That was a great investment by Winfrey.
At some point this painting will be too expensive to continue purchasing without a radical reduction in price.
The emperor will have no clothes.
That painting is ugly and the wallpaper looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old (and I have had plenty of three year old artists in my house).
I have no idea why anyone would pay millions of dollars for it. Maybe one of you can educate me.
The movie, Woman in Gold is on Netflix watched it tonight.Was very good.
Having been an art dealer for over forty years, it seems like anonymity is usually the process for buyer and seller. But then there are the “Look at Me” folks.