Amazing portrait of a beautiful young lady! This gorgeous piece is an original hand signed painting. It is not a giclee or any other reproduction. It is intricately painted with oil and gilt texture and beautifully framed, which accents the piece perfectly. We base this attribution on the same style, subject, signature, and complexity as used by Klimt. Medium: oil on canvas. Condition: Excellent. Edition: Unique original work of art. Signature: Upper left. Size: 23 x 15 in. Frame: 29 x 21 in. Provenance: Private estate of a modern & contemporary fine art collector in Chicago. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter and one of the most famous members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is renowned for his paintings, murals, and sketches. His primary subject was the female body and his works are recognized by a clear femininity and often erotic nature. Along with his portraits, Klimt also enjoyed painting landscapes. Klimt had many influences on his work but was most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. As he began to cultivate a more personal style, his work was seen as more and more controversial, culminating when his paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. As a result of this criticism he decided to no longer accept public commissions, but then found new success with the paintings during his "golden phase", many of which used gold leaf. Klimt's influence continues to stretch far and wide in the art world, from collectors and fans, to other great artists of their time, most notably through one of his most prodigious younger peers, Egon Schiele. Congratulations to the winning bidder of this gorgeous special original artwork in the manner of the incomparable, Gustav Klimt!