Gustav Klimt s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), reproduced on this journal cover, is a stunning example of the Viennese Jugendstil style. With the subject s face emerging from the background like a lucid dream, the portrait is hauntingly beautiful. Seized by the Nazis in the 1940s, the painting was recovered and today is on display in New York.
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