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Draft of a theater curtain
by Gustav Klimt
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This painting by Gustav Klimt draft design for a theater curtain early in his career. The decorative composition shows his emerging interest in ornamental patterns that would later define his famous style.
Klimt worked on several theater commissions before developing his golden period works. This draft was once at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston until its theft in 1990. Its whereabouts remain unknown.
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About Draft of a theater curtain
This work was stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and has never been recovered, in Unknown, Unknown.
Gustav Klimt made this early theater curtain draft You can see it at Private Collection. Gustav Klimt created this draft design for a theater curtain early in his career.
Klimt moved from academic theater decorations to the radically ornamental style of his Golden Phase. His early commercial work developed the decorative sensibility that later defined Viennese Art Nouveau.
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