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Klimt Painting of an African Prince Lost for Nearly 100 Years Goes on Show in Austria

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Prince William NII Nortey Dowuona, 1897 – credit Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Galleries.

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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