Cook Islands 2012 Adele by Gustav Klimt $20 Silver Proof Coin Swarovski
999 Silver Proof Coin with 16 Swarovski crystals. Issued by Cook Islands, as a part of very successful. Masterpieces of Art series, this 55 mm numismatic masterpiece is made of 3 Oz of pure 99.99% silver with inlaid 16 authentic Swarovski crystals. The coin's reverse is dedicated to.
By a famous Austrian Symbolist painter. Whose lavish sexual paintings came to symbolize the Art Nouveau style on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "Adele" - probably the most famous (and expensive) painting by Klimt - was completed in 1907 after 3 years of working on the canvas. The original painting measures 138 x 138 cm, with oil and gold paints showing elaborate and complex ornamentation of Jugendstill style.
The obverse of the coin traditionally bears the portrait of Her Majesty Elizabeth II. THE COIN IS IN MINT CONDITION AND COMES IN ALL ORIGINAL MINT PACKAGING. THE ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE COIN OFFERED IS PROVIDED. ALL THE COINS OF THIS SERIES. AND IS NOT A FLAW.
IF YOU COME ACROSS ONE THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE TONING THEN KNOW THAT. Proof with color and Swarovski crystals inlay. The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator. He has been called the preeminent exponent of Art Nouveau. Klimt began painting in 1883 as an artist-decorator in association with his brother and Franz Matsoh. From 1886 to 1898 Klimt executed mural decorations for staircases at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - these confirmed Klimt's eclecticism and broadened his range of historical references. Klimt was a cofounder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, a group of modernist architects and artists who organized their own exhibition society and gave rise to the Secession Movement, or the Viennese version of Art Nouveau.He was also a frequent contributor to Ver Sacrum, the group's journal. The primal forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death form the dominant themes of Klimt's work. His paintings of femmes' fatales, such as Judith I (1901), personify the dark side of sexual attraction. The Kiss (1908) celebrates the attraction of the sexes; and Hope I (1903) juxtaposes the promise of new life with the destroying force of death.
The sensualism and originality of Klimt's art led to a hostile reaction to his three ceiling murals Philosophy (1900), Medicine (1901), and Jurisprudence (1902) for the University of Vienna. Klimt's style drew upon an enormous range of sources: classical Greek, Byzantine, Egyptian, and Minoan art; late-medieval painting and the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer; photography and the symbolist art of Max Klinger; and the work of both Franz von Stuck and Fernand Khnopff. In synthesizing these diverse sources, Klimt's art achieved both individuality and extreme elegance. DON'T HESITATE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER LISTINGS! FOR CUSTOMERS IN UNITED STATES.EACH SALE COMES WITH UNCONDITIONAL 100% GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY AND. IF THE COIN IS NOT AS DESCRIBED. SAME 100% GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY AS FOR USA CUSTOMERS.