Post #2611466

By Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Flower Garden, oil on canvas, 43 1/4 by 43 1/4 inches (110 by 110cm), photo: Sotheby’s London, 01 March 2017. This work is considered one of Klimt’s finest landscape paintings. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art From the catalogue note: “Painted in 1907 during the golden period of Klimt’s career, Bauerngarten is a masterpiece of Viennese fin-de-siècle art. This remarkable landscape is rooted in the natural world yet simultaneously reaches towards the symbolic, decorative avant-garde. It is this synthesis of natural beauty and harmonious regularity which lends the work its profoundly moving quality. During the summer months, from 1900 onwards, Klimt travelled out of Vienna to Litzlberg on the Attersee with his friends and family to relax and paint. In the rustic garden of the Mayr-Hof Klimt found inspiration for the present work, with its informal profusion of poppies, daisies, zinnia and roses, and transformed it into a shimmering array of colour.”