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The Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie tie features elements from the painting Wasserschlangen II (in English Water Serpents II) by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
The painting has had a colorful history. It was originally commissioned for Jenny Steiner, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and after the death of her husband Gebrüder Steiner, was herself the director of a silk manufacturing company. Under the Anschluss of 1938 and being of Jewish heritage, her family's factories were expropriated by the Nazis and her extensive art collection, which included many works by Klimt including Wasserschlangen II, was stolen and auctioned in Vienna beginning in 1940. Steiner escaped with many of her family members to Portugal, then Brazil and finally to the USA. In 2013 the painting was one of the works at the centre of The Bouvier affair, when it was sold, potentially fraudulently, by the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $183.3 million. 100% Silk Twill.
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The shimmering design of the Metropolitan Museum Tiffany Peacock Feather Shawl was inspired by the Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933) iridescent glass vase produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in 1900. The piece stylizes the "eye" of the peacock feather with rich iridescent hues gradating to a light blue surrounding the eyes. Louis Comfort Tiffany was often compelled by the...
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Featuring lush, radiant colors, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris Scarf is based on the Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933) Magnolias and Irises Favrile glass window depicting a picturesque landscape. The window features an embankment of irises beneath flowering magnolia trees. Magnificent purple hills with a central meandering stream, emblematic of the River of Life theme, are set in...
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933) was one of America's most noted decorative artists at the turn of the twentieth century. He designed the brilliant five paneled Magnolia window (ca. 1885) for the Tiffany mansion at 72nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York where it was placed in the grand library. Divided by heavy leading, the window includes...
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The Metropolitan Museum’s elegant scarf is inspired by the John Henry Dearle (British, 1860-1932) 1896 wallpaper design titled “Compton”. John Henry Dearle was a British textile and stained-glass designer who was a chief designer of the William Morris interior design firm Morris & Co. The scarf features different shades of green, pink, and pastel blues that evokes the botanical and...