Australian painter Gustav Klimt's portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer II" is on display at New York's famous "The Museum of Modern Art" (MOMA). Borrowed long-term from a private collection, the portrait will be exhibited in MOMA's "Alfred H. Barr Jr." painting and sculpture galleries.
The portrait belonging to industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer's wife Adele Blochwas completed in 1912 in Vienna, where Klimt lived and worked.
The painting whose composition emphasizes Bloch-Bauer's social station within Vienna's cultural elite was taken by Nazis in 1938. In 2006, after years of legal negotiations, the works were returned to the Bloch-Bauer heirs and subsequently sold to other collections. "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" which was completed in 1907 and displayed at Neue Gallery in New York was sold for $135 million (TL 291.46 million) in 2006.
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