10/09/2026
Forget gold leaf and Klimt’s golden phase for a second, this one is pure color. Painted around 1905, it’s an almost square canvas, 110 x 110 cm, where a garden dissolves into a shimmer of blues, mauves, pale pink and warm yellow light. Closer to Monet than to “The Kiss.”
Here’s the twist for “where to find it” this week: for over 40 years, you could see it hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Not anymore. In 2022, France restituted the painting to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish collector in Vienna who was forced to sell it under N**i persecution in 1938. It left the museum’s walls that year and hasn’t been on public display since.
MuseeDOrsay KlimtArtForget gold leaf and Klimt’s golden phase for a second, this one is pure color. Painted around 1905, it’s an almost square canvas, 110 x 110 cm, where a garden dissolves into a shimmer of blues, mauves, pale pink and warm yellow light. Closer to Monet than to “The Kiss.”
Here’s the twist for “where to find it” this week: for over 40 years, you could see it hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Not anymore. In 2022, France restituted the painting to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish collector in Vienna who was forced to sell it under N**i persecution in 1938. It left the museum’s walls that year and hasn’t been on public display since.
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