Ringing In $108 Million At Sotheby’s, Gustav Klimt’s ‘Lady With A Fan’ Becomes Europe’s Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold At Auction
have come by this record-breaking moment honestly — the artist has been hitting the stratosphere since hisAlthough Adele was a quite the Viennese society figure and a figure in Klimt's life, Klimt poured everything he had to say about where his version of early modernism was headed intoObviously, as he worked the painting over the course of 1917-8 as the Habsburg Empire itself collapsed at the end of World War 1, Klimt didn't know that it would be his last work, which makes it all the...
poignant, but that fact aside, this painting serves as a bright beacon held up by the all-too-mortal Klimt, casting its beam forward into the flowering of modern art in the 20th century. He was at the peak of his powers when he died. He wrestled his imagery almost to the point of 20th-century abstraction, and it is the tension between that, and the more classical representative forms of the late-19th, that gives his work its depth and reach.
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