Neue Galerie — New York, NY, USA
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, 1907
Her husband commissioned it — a banker, from what I've read — and it apparently took something like four years to finish. The Nazis took it off the family in 1941, and there was a long legal fight over it decades later before it ended up where it is now.
Erisava: There's so much gold here I nearly missed the woman in it.