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This museum art print is of Gustav Klimt’s 1905 oil on canvas painting ‘The Three Ages of Woman’. The painting depicts a little girl held in the arms of a young woman stood next to an old woman holding her head in her hand. The old woman is based on a sculpture by Auguste Rodin titled ‘The Old Courtesan’.nbspThis work, which was one of Klimt’s most beloved paintings, is a fantastic example of his symbolic and allegorical art. It was one of his last multi figured large scale allegorical paintings. It is a visual representation of the transience of life and the permanence of death.nbspThe original painting is held in the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.
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