The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

The extraordinary story of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece: The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. It's a portrait of an era, of the splendor of Paris and Vienna, and of the disgrace that followed in the post-war period: the persecution and extermination of the Jews. Gustav Klimt, one of the greatest painters of all time, was considered a rebel in late 19th-century Vienna when he painted the seductive aristocrat Adele Bloch-Bauer. This book is also the story of the Bloch-Bauer family, Jewish bankers, and all the suffering they endured. The Golden Lady reveals the saga of this painting known as The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Journalist Anne-Marie O'Connor describes how it was confiscated by the Nazis and the international dispute between the Austrian government and Adele's niece years later.