Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938.. A collector couple had brought the heavily soiled painting to the gallery of the Viennese art dealers ...

An art historian who had been searching for the work for 2 decades verified its authenticity for W&K Galleries with the help ...

The painting, which depicts an African prince, turned out to be a ... While Matsch depicted the prince head-on against a solid green background, Klimt painted him from the side against a floral ...

(CNN) — An early painting by the famed Austrian painter ... Nii Nortey Dowuona — a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, in what is Ghana today — was painted in 1897 and depicts ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting?