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The lady in gold the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Shares the events that shaped the creation of the painter's most famous portrait, covering such topics as the story of the salon hostess who was his model, contributing factors in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the painting's fate.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Connor, Anne Marie
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Klimt, Gustav, > 1862-1918. > Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Bloch-Bauer, Adele, > 1881-1925 > Portraits.
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Summary:	Shares the events that shaped the creation of the painter's most famous portrait, covering such topics as the story of the salon hostess who was his model, contributing factors in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the painting's fate.
Physical Description:	xviii, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-338) and index.
ISBN:	9780307265647 (pbk.) 0307265641 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Anne-Marie O'Connor attended Vassar College, studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for twelve years, and has written extensively on the Klimt painting and the Bloch-Bauer family's efforts to recover its art collection. Her articles have appeared in Esquire, The Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor . She currently writes for The Washington Post from Mexico City, where her husband, William Booth, is Post bureau chief.