In this ongoing series for Fine Art Today, we take a longer look at the history and features of a soon-to-be-available artwork of note. This week’s painting is one of this artist’s greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction.
This week’s featured lot is perhaps one of the most anticipated in quite some time. Heading to auction on March 1 via Sotheby’s, London, is a masterpiece of Viennese fin-de-siècle art by the monumental Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). “This remarkable landscape is rooted in the natural world yet simultaneously reaches towards the symbolic, decorative avant-garde,” the auction house reports. “During the summer months, from 1900 onwards, Klimt traveled out of Vienna to Litzlberg on the Attersee with his friends and family to relax and paint. In the rustic garden of the Mayr-Hof Klimt found inspiration for ‘Bauerngarten,’ with its informal profusion of poppies, daisies, zinnia, and roses, and transformed it into a shimmering array of color.”
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Produced during the “golden period” of Klimt’s career, “Bauerngarten” was immediately met with celebration and adoration. In fact, the painting is regarded as one of the artist’s finest landscapes. “Bauerngarten” headlines Sotheby’s March 1 “Impressionist & Modern Art Sale” in London; estimate is in excess of $45 million.
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