Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 195 cm × 102 cm (77 in × 40 in) Location. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze (French: L'Arbre de Vie, Stoclet Frieze) is a painting by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was completed in 1909 and is based on the Art Nouveau (Modern) style in a symbolic painting genre.
Coming under the hammer for a whopping £85.3 million ($108.4 million or 885 crores) at a Sotheby’s sale in London on Tuesday evening (June 27), the last portrait completed by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has become the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction. A waterscape by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetched $53.2 million at auction despite questions about its ownership during the Nazi era. Klimt’s painting was shown at Kallir’s New York About Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter (born in 1862, died in 1918) and the founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. Klimt’s early work was rather realistic in nature. Much of the paintings he did prior to 1898 were large murals commissioned by theaters. Later in his life, Klimt began to paint in a Klimt already has a couple of works in the list of the World’s Top 20 most expensive paintings. And, in 2023, his Lady with a Fan sold for over €99 million (a record at the time for art sold at a European auction). With at least one less-well-known Klimt work insured for US$300 million, you can only begin to imagine how much The Kiss is worth. A8t1tY.