Width: 507mm

Height: 685mm

Depth: 2mm

Premium quality blue board (specially formulated cardboard)

1000 jigsaw pieces

Complex imagery

A pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement, Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was one of the most significant artists of modern times. To pay tribute to his daring artistic vision, we’ve reproduced Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), one of the most iconic paintings from his “golden phase.” During that period between 1901 to 1909, he painted groundbreaking pieces, destined to elicit instant recognition in both serious art lovers and those who simply have an appreciation for beautiful artifacts.

Klimt attended the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts where he trained as an architectural painter. As he painted interior murals and ceilings in public buildings, his technical ability endeared him to Vienna’s conservative haute society. But soon, his inner boundary-pushing style came through, causing too much of a stir for the culturally reactionary class who had initially welcomed him so openly. Three paintings he created for the University of Vienna were rejected – deemed “pornographic” – and so he took his talents elsewhere.

Klimt’s response to the scorn was to found the Vienna Secession, an avant-garde movement that treated art as a space for exploring possibilities rather than following the academic tradition. From then on, he was an artistic renegade contributing to the cultural fermentation of turn-of-the-century Vienna. He painted mostly portraits of the progressive society ladies who were his patrons. His works were often erotically charged, exotic, mystical representations, marking him as a Symbolist painter.