16.3.07

Die Tänzerin 1916-18

This wonderful Gustav Klimt is on the front page of my 1995 calendar - and more inside -- she surrounded by a mound of Roses and Anemones and holding Daffodils in her hands -- one of the harbingers of spring, snowdrops & crocus too -- in the right corner a group of Japanese or Chinese people in kimonos, looking out in the same direction as she is -- she is a courtesan/dancer of some kind! Quite enigmatic!
and the painting is in Neue Galerie New York, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Galerie