Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm the bold outlines

the bold outlines

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm the bold outlinesPortrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I is the apex of Klimt's Golden Phase two years of labour, layered in gold and silver leaf, encrusting the subject in Byzantine ornament until figure and background merge into a single shimmering field. Adele's face and hands emerge calm and precise from the riot of pattern: spirals, eyes, and geometric forms borrowed from Egyptian, Greek and Mycenaean sources. The result is less a portrait than an icon, at once intimate