Early Klimt African prince portrait stars in Maastricht

A hit at TEFAF was a rediscovered portrait that Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painted in 1897 of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, from the Ga people of west Africa.

In 1928, it was documented as a loan for the Klimt memorial exhibition at the Vienna Secession as …

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