Gustav KlimtIn June 2006, the Neue Galerie in New York purchased Gustav Klimt's 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I for $135 million. This deposed Picasso's Boy With a Pipe (sold May 2004 for $104 million) as the highest reported price ever paid for a piece of art sold at a public auction. However, Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) was a controversial figure in his time. Far from being acknowledged as the representative artist of his age, he was the target of violent