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A portrait of a stately West African leader painted by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has reappeared in public after being lost before World War II.
Nearly a hundred years have passed since it was last seen, and is now exhibited at Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Gallery in Vienna, with a price tag of €15 million.
The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona—a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, comprising parts of modern-day Ghana, was painted by Klimt in 1897, sold by the artist’s estate in 1923, and lost by 1938.
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Klimt Painting of an African Prince Lost for Nearly 100 Years Goes on Show in Austria
An art historian who had been searching for the work for 2 decades verified its authenticity for W&K Galleries with the help of a faded stamp
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