Hope II
The second painting entitled ‘Hope II’ was first shown to the public in 1909 in the Klimt room of the second Kunstschau: The first painting – that was withdrawn from the retrospective Secession exhibition for obscenity six years earlier – was also known there. At the time, Klimt had the following to say about the painting: ‘Everything is ugly, she is and what she sees, yet inside her grows beauty, hope. And her eyes express that’.
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KL32
- h. 24 cm.
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