Klimt "Woman in Gold" — Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Postcard

Klimt spent three years working into this portrait, gilding the canvas until Adele Bloch-Bauer seems to float in a field of Byzantine eyes and Egyptian spirals. Finished in 1907, the painting now hangs at the Neue Galerie in New York after one of the longest restitution battles of the postwar era. A 10×15 cm postcard for collectors of Klimt's Golden Phase, for gifts to art lovers, and for postcrossers sending something instantly recognizable abroad.