The Painted Kiss: A Novel

Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria—and the subject of the film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren—takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric historical novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath.

Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic ...