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Gustav Klimt’s Luminous Masterpiece

London | March 2017

The star of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 1 March in London is undoubtedly Gustav Klimt’s luminous ‘Bauerngarten', dating from the artist’s celebrated and much-loved golden period. Innovative in its composition and jewel-like in its exquisite blaze of colours, it is one of the artist’s greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction.

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