Portrait of Fraulein Lieser

About this work

Klimt painted Fräulein Lieser over nine sittings in 1917 and died before signing it. The picture vanished in the 1920s and was not seen for some ninety-nine years. It resurfaced in Vienna in 2024 and was sold under the Washington Principles in a settlement with the family’s heirs. Which young woman it shows is still disputed.

Here Rami Alon kept Klimt’s exact proportions — two to one, upright. And the timing is not accidental: he began work at the end of March 2024, only weeks after the world saw the painting for the first time in generations.