Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Serena Lederer 1899

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Beautiful and stylish, Serena Pulitzer Lederer was a star of turn-of-the-century Viennese society. For this portrait, commissioned by her husband, the industrialist August Lederer, Klimt employed soft, sinuous brushstrokes to present Serena as an apparition in white. "An upright flower, long-stemmed … like a black tulip," enthused one critic when the painting was shown in 1901 at the tenth exhibition of the Vienna Secession—a group founded by Klimt and other artists four years earlier, with the aim of putting the city at the forefront of the international art world. The Lederers subsequently formed the finest collection of Klimt’s work in private hands.

Cézanne painted bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous
compositions of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. Late in life,
he painted three large-scale female bather groups. In such works, Cézanne
was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the
landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. - art-Cezanne.com

Renoir and Monet began portraying the same landscape in 1869, when they
simultaneously painted at the famous waterside café La Grenouillère (The
Frogpond) at Bougival. This collaboration has often been analyzed and used
to point out the real aesthetic differences between the two artists - Monet,
the painter of light and water, and Renoir, the painter of the human form.
- art-Monet.com

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Gustav Klimt 1862-1918