Klimt's famous Kiss.
Klimt worked at the end of the 19th century, in the Art Nouveau and Secessionist groups in Austria. (They were "seceding" from the traditional artist groups.) He has wonderful, absorbing overall patterns and colors. In the Kiss, I feel we are really sinking into love.
The Kiss is at the Belvedere Palace, but I don't think it was one of the ones referred to in the article and removed.
Beautiful stuff!
I can't think of Klimt without thinking of "Back To School" with Rodney Dangerfield:
"Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt."
"You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody."
"Well, she's very proud of it."
"I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though."
“Lawyers for the Austrian government have fought since 1998 to retain the rights to the four paintings. The other paintings are a lesser-known Bloch-Bauer portrait [possibly your #2], as well as Apfelbaum (Apple Tree), Buchenwald/Birkenwald (Beech Forest/Birch Forest) and Haeuser in Unterach am Attersee (Houses in Unterach on Attersee Lake).”
Ah, so it wasn't "The Kiss" of Death, after all.