Do you need to ID the sitter in a portrait painting? A current headline in the online newspaper Artdaily is prompting the question: “For sale: A rare Gustave Klimt portrait, valued at $32 million. But of whom?”
Does it matter?
Does it matter that, say, the Mona Lisa pictures Lisa del Giocondo? To her husband, who commissioned the work, sure. But to the viewing public? Isn’t the key to a painting what it imparts?
Consider the Dutch portraits of the 17th century for the moment. There’s no record of the sitters’ identities. They stare out at us with little facial expressions. Yet, their likenesses carry a ton of information about who they were and even what they cared about, which, as it turns out, makes them effigies of their time....Read more
Thursday 30 October 2025
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Long lost Klimt portrait letches $32 million at auction in Vienna
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