Volume 54, Number 20 · December 20, 2007
Gold & Geld
By John Updike
Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, from October 18, 2007–June 30, 2008.
Neue Galerie/Prestel, 480 pp., $65.00
The Gustav Klimt exhibition, which opened on October 18, 2007, will fill the Neue Galerie until the end of June next year. Its attention-riveting center is Klimt's 1907 portrait of the prominent Viennese society figure and art patron Adele Bloch-Bauer (see illustration), executed in oils, silver, and gold—a radiant example of his so-called Golden Style, which was inspired by the artist's two visits, in 1903, to Ravenna, where he saw the Byzantine mosaics in the church of San Vitale.
Review, 2543 words
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