Klimt’s Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow) was sold for $86.9 million at Sotheby's New York on November 18, 2025

Gustav Klimt’s Blumenwiese (also known as Flower Meadow or Blooming Meadow), painted around 1905–1907, is a radiant example of the artist’s landscape work, a genre that occupies a quieter yet deeply significant place within his oeuvre. Unlike his symbolist portraits and gilded allegories, this painting reveals Klimt’s meditative engagement with nature, filtered through his unmistakably decorative vision.

The composition offers no horizon and no sky. Instead, the viewer is immersed directly into a dense field of wildflowers, creating an all-over surface that feels almost textile-like. This flattened perspective dissolves traditional depth, transforming the meadow into a shimmering carpet of color. Tiny blossoms, reds, yellows, whites, blues, and violets are meticulously placed, each functioning like a mosaic fragment within a larger ornamental whole.