Gustav Klimt - Houses at Unterach on the Attersee 1916
Houses at Unterach on the Attersee 1916
110x110cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 31.3 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 8 November 2006
Seller: Heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, New York:
As an artist, Klimt always kept an eye open to the advances in art that were happening around him. He would allow these to influence him, yet he retained his own idiosyncratic style at the core. He would take the merest shards of the stylistic developments of the artists of the period, turning them to his own purposes. In Houses in Unterach on the Attersee, a thousand influences are blended together, and yet the result is unquestionably a painting that sings with Klimt's unique vision.