Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' stands as one of his masterpieces from his 'golden phase', completed between 1903 and 1907 at the commission of Adele's husband, Jewish industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. The story of the painting, however, tragically captures this turbulent point in history, as it was seized by the Nazis in 1941 when Bloch-Bauer — falsely accused of tax evasion, and stripped of his fortune — was forced to flee Vienna. Though Adele’s will had expressed a wish for the painting to enter the Belvedere Gallery’s collection, the work legally belonged to Ferdinand, and his own will made clear that his estate, including this masterpiece, was meant for his heirs. Decades later, it was Maria Altmann, Ferdinand’s niece, who challenged the theft in a legal battle that reached the United States Supreme Court, ultimately winning back not only 'The Woman in Gold' but a measure of justice long delayed. In the same year of 2006, the portrait was sold to Ronald Lauder for $135 million, becoming a centerpiece of the Neue Galerie in New York — a luminous survivor of art, history, and restitution.