Gustav Klimt rose to prominence for his depictions of the female form and his use of bold, vibrant shapes and colors. Today, he is perhaps best known for his painting The Kiss, created between ...

This story has been corrected to explain the location of the painting and the contents of the portrait itself. A painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt that was believed to be lost for around 100 ...

(CNN) — An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the ... he painted about 11 years later in “The Kiss,” which attracts hundreds of thousands of ...

Gustav Klimt often used patterns in his paintings and murals. The Kiss (1907-8) is composed of flat areas of irregular patterns. A repeating rectangle motif is used for the man’s body ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s ... recognized for the gilded couple he painted about 11 years later in “The Kiss,” which attracts hundreds ...