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An image of the box of notecards titled 'Women: Portraits by Gustav Klimt' in vertical text down the left side of the box. On the right side of the box is a portrait of a brunette woman in an intricate dress.
An image of one of the cards included in the boxed notecard set. The card features a drawing of brunette woman with short hair who is wearing a multicolored dress with a black furry collar. She is standing in front of an orange background.
An image of one of the cards included in the boxed notecard set. The card features a drawing of a brunette woman who is wearing a frilly white dress. She is standing in front of a grey-green background.
An image of one of the cards included in the boxed notecard set. The card features a drawing of a brunette woman who is wearing an intricate multicolored dress and who is standing in front of a yellow-gold background.
An image of one of the cards included in the boxed notecard set. The card features a drawing of a brunette woman who is wearing an intricate white and blue dress and a large brimmed black hat. She is standing in front of a multicolored floral background.
Wadsworth Atheneum

Women: Portraits by Gustav Klimt Boxed Notecard Assortment

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At the turn of the 20th century, Austrian society was in a state of turbulent change. A culture of prudishness and moral rectitude was collapsing and a new order was being born. The art world saw a clash between the bland, rigid establishment style and the emerging power, eroticism, and symbolism of works by the Vienna Secession—a group, cofounded by Gustav Klimt, that broke with the rulebound Vienna Academy and organized its own exhibitions. Thus in 1899 one of Klimt’s paintings was called “the most beautiful picture ever painted by an Austrian,” while a year later Klimt was excoriated for his new style. The paintings we now see as graceful, quietly sensual, and profoundly appreciative of their subjects were positively frightening to the Austrian sensibility in the early 20th century. Here are five each of four of Klimt’s most beautiful portraits.

• 20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box
• Printed in full color on recycled paper with soy based inks
• High-quality 250 gsm card stock
• Soft white envelopes

Size: 
Box- 5.375 x 7.375 x 1.5 in.
Card- 5 x 7 in.