◧ Artist: Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)
◧ Country: Austria
◧ Title: [Portrait of Fritza Riedler]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 153 x 133 cm
◧ Museum: Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
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◧ County of Stamp Issue: Austria
◧ Date of Issue: July 14, 2012
◧ Face Value: 170 Cents
◧ Issued as 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt birth
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In [Portrait of Fritza Riedler], the treatment of the women's white dresses is very close, as are the geometrical blocks of colour in the background. Fritza Riedler, however, is seated, and here Klimt has let his imagination take over. The armchair in which she sits - perfectly realistic in the preparatory drawings - has virtually disappeared, becoming a two-dimensional outline filled in with gold and silver eye-shaped motifs. The gold and silver are picked up by the small squares dotted across the background wall. (excerpt from www.Gustav-Klimt.com)
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