Gustav Klimt, a lecture by Lucrezia Walker.

Gustav Klimt.
A successful Viennese painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner, Klimt's later more personal style was criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his golden phase, The Kiss being perhaps his most famous.

His work encapsulates turn of the century Vienna at its distinctive artistic peak.

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–1916) sold at Sothebys in New York for an astonishing $236.4 million (£179.7 million). This historic sale shattered records, making it the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction and the second most expensive artwork overall. [1]

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DOCUMENTS

Membership form Arts Soc 2026 -27.docx

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Ms Lucrezia Walker

Is a regular lecturer at the National Gallery both in front of the paintings and in the lecture theatre. For the Tate Gallery's Development department she speaks to their corporate sponsors in their offices and at their private receptions in both Tates. She teaches US undergraduates on their Study Abroad semesters in London. She was Lay Canon for the Visual Arts at St Paul's Cathedral 2010-2014.

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