Completed in 1907, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I shows Adele Bloch-Bauer at about twenty-six: dark hair swept up, flushed cheeks, red lips, a diamond choker at the throat, hands clasped in an odd, almost protective gesture.
Water Serpents II (also called Freundinnen, or The Girlfriends) is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, begun in 1904 and finished in 1906–1907.
Water Serpents I (Wasserschlangen I), also called Girlfriends or Freundinnen I, is one of Gustav Klimt’s most intimate works from his Golden Phase.
The painting does not tell a story with a beginning and an end. It shows three stages of one female life at the same moment, as if time had been folded into a single image.
Hope I is Gustav Klimt’s tall, confrontational vision of pregnancy: a life-sized nude woman who looks the viewer in the eye while death, disease, and a monstrous sea-creature press in around her.
The knight holds his lance steady, the visor is down, flowers bloom at the horse’s feet — and a snake slips in from the left.
Gustav Klimt’s Goldfish (German: Goldfische) is a tall, narrow painting that immediately draws the eye with its dreamlike mix of sensuality and defiance.
Gustav Klimt’s Judith I (also known as Judith and the Head of Holofernes) is one of the most magnetic and unsettling images in modern art.
In 1898 Gustav Klimt painted a square canvas that still radiates quiet power. At its centre stands Pallas Athene, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic war.