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KLIMT, Gustav: Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein

🖼 Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, 1905
Oil on canvas
180 × 91 cm
Munich, Germany

Shimmering gold leaf frames a severe, elongated figure in austere dress against a flattened background. Klimt's only portrait of the philosopher's sister captures Modernist tension between decorative opulence and psychological distance, defining early 20th-century Austrian portraiture.

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