Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer made headlines on November 18 at a Sotheby's auction in New York, selling for $236.4 million, the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction.
Gustav Klimt embodied the high-keyed erotic, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling intellectual world. He was generally regarded as the greatest talent in the ranks of the Vienna avant-garde of the day. Yet far from being acknowledged as the representative artist of his age, Klimt was the target of harsh criticism.
Many of his works, especially for the Viennese Secessionists (of which he was a co-founder) displayed shimmering abstract patterns that embellished both private and public spaces. Klimt cultivated a keen understanding of the symbolic nature of mythical and allegorical figures and narratives from Greece, Rome, and other ancient civilizations.
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