Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
1907 · Work
Klimt's gold-leaf portrait of a Viennese sugar magnate's wife; looted by the Nazis, restituted to her niece Maria Altmann in 2006 and sold for a then-record $135 million.
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