The Portrait (2015)

The real story behind the $1. M portrait that inspired a Helen Mirren film.

She’s been compared to the . The real thing hangs at Lauder. He never married, but entertained a succession of beautiful women in his studio. One of them was Adele. Both she and her wealthy, much- older husband, Ferdinand, admired Klimt. It took him four years to finish it, and after it was done, the couple commissioned another, . He even got her to smile, despite a life rife with tragedy.

Her marriage was more a business merger between powerful families than it was a love match, and her two children didn. And so she educated herself, became a patron of the arts, and promoted women. Her despairing husband preserved her bedroom, with its six Klimt paintings ? That free spirit had a stroke and died in 1.

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Many of his notebooks were lost in a fire, so we. But we do have this golden portrait of her.

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