PORTRAIT OF A LADY with AMBER Gustav Klimt Silver Coin Niue 2021

This amazing silver coin portraits the painting “Portrait of a Lady”, 1916-17, shows a woman in a patterned dress. An X-ray examination revealed that the work of art is an altered version of the “Portrait of a Young Woman” originally depicted with a hat and a scarf. Today the cost of the canvas, once stolen and found years later, is estimated for 66 million dollars. Coins decorated with the Baltic Gold – Polish amber

• Fine silver Ag 999
• Wonderful gift for an art connoisseur
• A limited to only 555 pieces

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his “golden phase”, many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele.