Lost and Found: Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, Missing for Years, to Feature in Rome Show

Firstpost ^ | October 27, 2021

[nickcarraway]

Mystery still swirls around Klimt’s painting, which went missing for nearly 23 years after its theft from an Italian museum, only to turn up at the start of coronavirus pandemic

Mystery still swirls around Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady nearly a quarter-century after the painting was stolen from an Italian museum, only to turn up at the start of what would become the coronavirus pandemic.

Who stole the 1917 artwork and how it wound up stashed inside the museum’s outer walls are still unknown. But the portrait of a young woman with a sensuous side glance will be part of a major exhibition about the work of the Austrian artist that opens in Rome on Wednesday.

Experts announced in January 2020 that a painting accidentally discovered the month before by a gardener clearing ivy from the outside walls of the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery in Piacenza was indeed the Klimt that had disappeared from the gallery in 1997.

[BenLurkin]

[SaveFerris]

Quick! Good job. Had forgotten to that one.

We want the Kramer. He sickens me.

Yet I cannot look away.

[lee martell]

Except for the green background, the painting looks similar to some of Amedeo Modigliani’s early, more figurative work.

[Flick Lives]

Interesting artist. His work is like a precursor to the 60’s psychedelic art.

[Howie66]

Let’s hope that Christopher Walken isn’t nearby with his paint roller.

[Beowulf9]

“ Who stole the 1917 artwork and how it wound up stashed inside the museum’s outer walls are still unknown”.

Sounds like an inside job.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

I'm not a big art guy but anytime a "sensuous side glance" by a woman is involved, I'm likely to take a look. Perhaps the rather attractive lady is depicted with a blueish green background because the artist was depressed and she brightened his day.

[mass55th]

"Interesting artist. His work is like a precursor to the 60’s psychedelic art."

Good movie with Helen Mirren, and Ryan Reynolds, about another Klimt painting that was taken from a Jewish family during WWII...from 2015:

Women in Gold

[fieldmarshaldj]

[jocon307]

Love Klimt! Always glad when stolen art resurfaces.

Hope all enjoy the show!

[dfwgator]

That’s what I came here for.

[SaveFerris]

A loathsome creature!!!

[SaveFerris]

If that dress 🥻 had pockets, she’d look like a pool table. 🎱

Watch my sandwich 🥪.

Just saw Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters playing pool on The Twilight Zone very very late last night. Actually about 4:30 this a.m. I work nights, part time now, so I’m up really late these days.

[Jane Austen]

Me too.

[Albion Wilde]

[Albion Wilde]

Detail of my favorite Klimt, Judith I:

[Cecily]

The real Randy discusses the Woman in Gold case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXMjq9e2cg

[mass55th]

Thanks!!

[SunkenCiv]

Great minds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xyEgQXVLQ