The story of Klimt's Portrait of a Lady becomes a book.

On Nov. 28, Giallo Klimt, a detective story that will tell the mysteries of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, will be released on newsstands (with the daily newspaper Libertà) and in the bookshop of the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in Piacenza. The book will be released on the same day that the famous painting, which was stolen in 1997 and found in late 2019 in a black sack inside a niche in the Gallery’s courtyard, is scheduled to be returned to the Piacenza museum venue.

Giallo Klimt is written by Giorgio Lambri, chief reporter of the Piacenza newspaper and ANSA correspondent.

Nearly 150 pages will tell the story of the painting, from its double drafting (it was originally a Portrait of a Girl with Hat, transformed by the artist a year before his death) to the purchase of the work by Giuseppe Ricci Oddi and the discovery of the double identity in 1996. Also, the theft and the rediscovery.

The book is accompanied by dozens of photos from the newspaper’s historical archive.

Pictured: Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Lady (1916-1918; oil on canvas, 68 x 55 cm; Piacenza, Ricci Oddi Gallery)

The story of Klimt's Portrait of a Lady becomes a book.

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