“A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting.
The portrait, of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist and the hostess of a prominent Vienna salon, is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces.”
The New York Times, just today. I say why not and right on!
Hey DJ – love Klimt – ’bout time he got some respect. Nice to see the humanities are still important.
check it out:
http://www.colorblindpainter.com
-jb
you know the expression: She looks like a hundred and thirty five million bucks!