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Jenn's avatar

Thank you for this interesting biography! I really love his work and had never heard his reason for adding the gold.

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Alina Okun's avatar

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

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The History Maven's avatar

Wow…..Oprah made bank with that sale!!

The Tree of Life was painted during Egyptian Revival period, do you think the repeat Eye of Horus was because of Egyptian image popularity? Or was it more of a life stage statement? That symbol was popular in funerary art.

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Alina Okun's avatar

Yes, Oprah did very well for herself by flipping Klimt's painting.

I won't pretend to know anything about the Eye of Horus (had to Google it just now), but you ask really good questions. I may need to do a follow up piece on that :)

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