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II’ was first shown to the public in 1909 in the Klimt room of the second Kunstschau: The first painting – that was withdrawn from the retrospective Secession exhibition for obscenity six years earlier – was also known there.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’.