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Jim Morris

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Go for it Jim, when it's in place we'll organise another coach trip. I bet Lewis could do a good one too. It is a lovely portrait but I still think her neck is far too long. If I do that I'm a bad painter, if he does it he's a genius doing it deliberately. Can't win can we.
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Jim Morris

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See this is what I mean by versions Peter. Photographic accuracy isn't the criteria of portraiture. It's about what the artist sees, not what a camera would. Picasso is the shining example surely, as are many re Raphaelite works, indeed the Royal Academy has some real horrors. Just my view.
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Peter Smith

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I know Jim, you're right of course.  It's just that if you or I do it it's because we got it wrong! 
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George Cutter

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Disregarding what someone thought the amount worth paying for it , the Klimt portrait is a very good painting done by an excellent Artist.
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George Cutter

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Regardless of the amount of money someone thought it worth paying for the Klimt portrait, it is an extremely good painting done by a very good and important Artist.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Hee hee - it is a long neck, but that's how Klimt painted; just near enough to be anatomically correct, just beyond being quite accurate.   The price-tag is ridiculous of course: but - it's been said; the arts world is mad, bad, and obsessed with investment values; but at least Klimt enjoyed some taste of fame and fortune before his untimely death (from the side-effects of the Spanish 'flu which hit the world immediately after the First World War). And just to cheer us all up nicely, I've had an old tube of Yellow Ochre oil paint split in half and have spent some time scrubbing it off my hands: a small thing, you may say, but all part of the arty life - now to look around to see where I've managed to spread it...

Sylvia Evans

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Oooooh I do like coach trips.  Not been on one for years.  Like Jim's  Placky door as well.    Her neck is a tad  long Peter, I agree, but it's a beautiful painting for the money. Maybe we should all do a dreadful portrait . It pays well. Robert you are always messy.

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Tessa Gwynne

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I think the Klimt is a lovely painting, long neck or not! Investment Funds pay what seems like silly money, but will no doubt sell it in another 5-10 years for a very healthy profit, and this is the sort of thing that pays our pensions.  Incidentally I’d rather spend my £85M on a Klimt than a Premiership footballer. Unfortunately or fortunately I don’t have the need to decide.  😂

stephen weight

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I'v always considered the champion of the stretched neck to be Modigliani .  The amount of work in that Klimt is incredible - do we know how much Klimt sold it for initially ? .
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Peter Smith

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He didn't, he died before he could finish it.

Jenny Harris

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Apparently the portrait - the last he completed - was one of two paintings found in his studio on his death in 1918.

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Ellen Mooney

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I think the Klimt painting is beautiful. I suppose if you’ve got £85M why not spend it on a lovely work of art! 
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