- Gustav Klimt​ (after), giclée print on heavyweight textured matte paper (300gsm approx.). - Stamp on verso. - Embossed stamp. - Condition: excellent. Never framed, never exposed. - Size: 35 x 55cm. - Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most influential figures of the Vienna Secession movement. Trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Vienna, Klimt began his career producing decorative murals and ceiling paintings in a highly academic, historicist style. His early work demonstrates exceptional technical precision and classical draftsmanship, qualities that would later merge with his distinctive symbolist language. By the late 1890s, Klimt shifted towards a more personal, expressive visual vocabulary characterized by gold leaf, ornamental patterning, flattened forms, and psychologically charged imagery. This stylistic transformation reached its peak in what is known as his “Golden Phase,” which includes masterpieces such as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. His art often revolves around themes of sensuality, myth, the feminine psyche, and the tension between beauty and mortality. Today, Klimt’s works are among the most coveted in the global art market. Several of his paintings have achieved record-breaking auction prices particularly his portraits with values frequently reaching tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. Klimt’s rarity, the iconic nature of his imagery, and the historical significance of his oeuvre place him consistently among the top-selling artists in the world. Idylle (1884) belongs to Klimt’s early period, created before his stylistic breakthrough. Painted when he was still closely associated with the Künstler-Compagnie (a decorative-arts collective he formed with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch), the piece reflects the classical academic tradition that defined his formative years. The composition is elaborately structured: two idealized male figures flank a circular central scene where a mother tenderly offers nourishment to two cherubic children. The framing elements lush foliage, floral motifs, and ornamental borders showcase Klimt’s early mastery of decorative detail. While still rooted in realism, Idylle subtly anticipates Klimt’s later fascination with symbolism, allegory, and classical mythology, offering a glimpse into the themes he would explore more radically in his mature works. Some artists of similar importance, Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Sorolla, Banksy, Brainwash, Miró, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Lautrec, Modigliani, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Herrera, Laurent, Klein, Coa, Dior, Vuitton, Kaws, Valentino, Cappiello, Kandinsky, Warhol, Buffa, Tura, Castle, Ponti, Knoll, Corbusier, rober, Johns, Starck, Breuer, Nelson, Mogensen, Ponti, Bertoia, Urquiola, Chillida. Magistretti, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, Katz, Braque, among others.