The Kiss 1907 - 08

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Our Price: £2.25

Code: 144
Publisher: The Art Fund/Museums & Galleries Marketing Ltd.

Availability: 3 units

Artist: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Austrian

Oil on canvas, with silver and gold leaf

The original painting forms part of the collection in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

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Size: 16cm (6¼") square

More Information about this Greeting Card and the Artist

The Love Art? card range published by Museums and Galleries in collaboration with the Art Fund comprises an exclusive collection of greeting cards of paintings from the world's greatest art galleries and museums, reproduced faithfully to the highest possible standard.

'The Kiss' is one of Klimt's most famous paintings and it makes an ideal art greeting card to send for many occasions. Klimt was the outstanding Austrian painter of his time - one of the greatest figures of a golden age of Viennese culture that ended with the First World War. He came from a family of craftsmen and took a delight in beautiful and expensive materials, often using gold leaf in his paintings. The lush patterning so characteristic of his work helps create the sensuous mood of pictures such as this. A female friend said that he depicted women 'like costly orchids lost in dreams of ecstatic rapture'.

This greeting card is a part of The LoveArt? range which is published by Museums & Galleries Marketing Ltd., in association with The Art Fund. The Art Fund is an independent membership charity committed to saving art for everyone to enjoy. Since 1903 Art Fund members have helped save over 850,000 works of art for museums and galleries in the UK.

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