Will Klimts Painting Become New Yorks Mona Lisa?
Will Klimt’s Painting Become New York’s ‘Mona Lisa’? Saturday September 30, 2006 Klimt started painting his Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in 1903, finishing it in 1907. In 2006 it was bought for a record-breaking US$135 million by a billionaire, Ronald S. Lauder, for the Neue Galerie in New York. So, will Klimt’s painting become New York’s crowd-puller in the way the Mona Lisa is for Paris? According to a report on CNN, it seems likely: before the painting arrived, about 2,500 people visited it in a week, “one-fortieth the atten
