Painted at the very beginning of the twentieth century, Insel im Attersee is among Klimt’s most evocative landscapes. Depicting the mesmerizing blue waters of the Attersee (Atter Lake) in Austria, it marks a key moment in Klimt’s career, as he pioneered a new and distinctive approach to landscape painting. In this work, traditional perspective and subject are abandoned to a flood of color and form that borders on the abstract. Klimt creates a composition that immerses the viewer in a contemplation of nature and art that is both timeless and profoundly modern in sensibility.
Insel im Attersee from Gustav Klimt will be offered in Sotheby’s Modern Evening auction on 16 May at Sotheby’s New York as a part of the New York Sales presented in partnership with CELINE.
