(Head shot) Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer by Gustave Klimt 1907

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(Head shot) Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer by Gustave Klimt 1907

Description

Part of a series of artworks owned by the Block-Bauer family, looted by the Nazis in 1941. This portrait was the subject of a seven year legal battle to return it to the Block-Bauer family from the Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. It was finally returned in 2006. The portrait is now on display in the Neue Galerie in New York.

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Credit: Gustav Klimt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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