A lover of women; Gustav Klimt.(Gustav Klimt)

The Economist (US) | November 17, 2007 | Copyright

Hope waiting by the studio door

Money and sex bolster the new fascination with Klimt's paintings

WHY is Gustav Klimt, an Austrian artist who lived between 1862 and 1918, so popular? Even before its November 12th publication date in America, both the English and the German editions of the five-kilo (11lb) Klimt catalogue raisonne by Alfred Weidinger (Prestel) had sold out. And 6,000 visitors had crowded into the first week of the Klimt exhibition at New York's Neue Galerie, running from October 12th to June 30th 2008. A spokesman suggests that Klimt may be ...

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