Gustav Klimt Exhibition at Neue Galerie New York

The Neue Galerie New York opened last month a very interesting new exhibition "Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" with eight paintings and more than 120 drawings by the famous Austrian Symbolist painter.

This exhibition, unites the collections of Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky, co-founders of the Neue Galerie, is the first museum retrospective of the work of Gustav Klimt ever held in the US. The art exhibition will be on view through June 30, 2008.

“Klimt’s work embodies the quintessence of fin de siècle Vienna: its richness, its sensuality, and its capacity for innovation,” said Renée Price, Director of the Neue Galerie.

Klimt (1862–1918) was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement and he is internationally recognized as a major figure of twentieth-century art.

Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In November of 2003, Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sold for $29 million, and in 2006 the 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I, purchased for a record $135 million by the Ronald Lauder.

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