Description:
Obverse
Collection: Klimt and his Women.
A prime example of Klimt’s “golden phase”, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is the first of the artist’s masterpieces to feature in our superlative Klimt and his Women series. It was also the most expensive painting in the world when purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York at a price of $135 million in 2006.
Reverse
Lettering:
REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
GUSTAV KLIMT
50 EURO 2012
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