The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

The Lady in Gold

The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

2012 • 349 pages

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15

The first section was good, I learned a lot and it was a fun read. But I wasn't really in the mood for the Holocaust stuff, and certainly not dozens of pages block-quoting fake-cheerful letters between spouses on either side of the barbed wire. Found myself spending more time googling photos of the people and paintings than reading the book itself, and that's a sure sign that it's time to move on.