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Missing for over two decades, a portrait by Gustav Klimt returns to public view in a major exhibition focused on the Vienna Secession in Rome. Galleria di Moderna Ricci Oddi, in Piacenza, has loaned to Klimt: The Secession and Italy its prized Bildnis einer Frau (Portrait of a Lady). The recently-restored Klimt masterpiece from 1916-17 was stolen 22 years ago and remained missing until December 2019 when a gardener discovered the painting by chance in a sack wedged inside the .
Gustav Klimt paintings go on display in an exhibition in Rome, including Portrait of a Lady missing for 23 years after being stolen from a gallery in Italy.
Now that
Roses Under the Trees (1905), the only painting by Gustav Klimt in a French national museum, is due to be restituted from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to the heirs of Viennese Jews whom the Nazis robbed, eyes are on another Klimt landscape painting believed to be in France:
Apple Tree II (1916), returned to the wrong family 20 years ago after it was confused for
Roses Under the Trees, and now held by billionaire Bernard Arnault.
Apple Tree II was owned by Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt, the daughter of Erich and Serena Lederer, from a family of Jewish distillers, before the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Many of the Lederers’ paintings were seized and major works by Klimt were destroyed in 1945, including another possible arboreal landscape