Adele Bloch-Bauer "US $ 148.7 millionPaintings by Gustav Klimt's "Adele Bloch-Bauer" sold in June 2006 for US $ 148.7 million to Ronald Lauder for display at the Neue Galerie in New York City.
Other works of Gustav Klimt "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" in 1912 sold 8 November 2006 at US $ 87.936 million.
The painting titled "Adele Bloch Bauer" completed in 1907 measuring 138 x 138 cm made of oil and gold on canvas, showing the elaborate and complex ornamentation in the Jugendstil style. The painting was made in Vienna on the order of a businessman Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer by the model in the picture is his wife, Adele Bloch-Bauer. At the end of his life, Adele asked her husband to donate the Klimt paintings to the Austrian State Gallery in 1925, this painting was confiscated by the Nazis and had also become that legitimate ownership dispute over the painting.
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter wing symbolism, born July 14, 1862 then died February 6, 1918, he is the most well-known and active member of the movement of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession). Most of his work on display in the Vienna Secession Gallery. His great works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt main subjects are women, and his works show eroticism and beauty. Pencil drawings, which amount to very much, is regarded as his best legacy.
