The Story of The Woman in Gold
On first seeing the film and Gustave Klimt’s painting in 2015
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5 min readOct 13, 2019
The Woman in Gold, the full-length portrait of a young and elegant Adele Bloch-Bauer, shimmers in the afternoon sunlight. I stand so close that I can see each delicate golden and silver brushstroke of Gustave Klimt’s masterpiece that took him three years to complete.
