The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as the Lady in Gold, is a famous Art Nouveau oil on canvas by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt from 1907, on which a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer is painted. It is considered the culmination and a complete painting from its "golden" phase, characterized by intense decorative lyricism and formal stylization.
The painting was family-owned until the Nazis, along with the 1912 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, confiscated it during World War II and renamed it The Lady in Gold to avoid mentioning this once influential Jewish family. After the war, the painting was part of the permanent exhibition of the Austrian Belvedere Gallery until the last surviving heiress of the Bloch-Bauer family, Maria Altmann, won a lawsuit against the Republic of Austria. The state acknowledged that the paintings were family property and handed over works from the collection, which were soon on display at the State Museum of Art in Los Angeles. The painting by Adele Bloch-Bauer I was sold in 2006 at a record price of 135 million dollars to the New Gallery (Neue Galerie) in New York, the museum of German and Austrian art of the early 20th century, where it is still located today.
In 2015, Simon Curtis made a movie of the same name with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds in the lead roles.