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: In the late 1990s, Maria Altmann, Adele’s niece, began a decade-long legal crusade to reclaim the work from the Austrian government. The case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court ( Republic of Austria v. Altmann ).

: Adele Bloch-Bauer, a prominent Jewish socialite and patron of the arts in Vienna, was the only model Klimt painted twice. La Dama De Oro

: The painting is noted for its "flat," decorative composition where Adele's realistic face and hands emerge from a sea of geometric and organic gold motifs. History of Looting and Restitution : In the late 1990s, Maria Altmann, Adele’s

: Klimt utilized oil paint along with extensive silver and gold leaf, a style inspired by the Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna. Altmann )

: Following the 1938 Anschluss, the painting was stolen from the Bloch-Bauer family. It was later renamed "The Woman in Gold" by the Nazis to strip it of its Jewish identity.

: In 2006, an arbitration panel in Vienna ruled in favor of Altmann. Today, the painting is permanently displayed at the Neue Galerie in New York City.