Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt Jenny Liz Rome and movement

and movement

Landscape with Stars extends Cross's Neo-Impressionist practice into nocturnal territory

preserving the layered colour and fine detail of the Meiji originals

each variety rendered distinct through subtle differences in form and hue

grounded in natural material — gives it an almost abstract quality at distance

Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt Jenny Liz Rome and movementThis iconic portrait consumed Klimt for nearly four years, the surface built up from genuine gold and silver leaf hammered into a tapestry of Byzantine and Mycenaean motifs. Adele Bloch Bauer sits at the heart of this gilded field, composed and almost otherworldly, her face and hands the only naturalistic elements in an otherwise abstract sea of pattern. The painting's extraordinary ambition to dissolve portraiture into pure decoration was never more