Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (1907) Gold wasn't decoration. It was belief. Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, 1907 portrait of adele bloch bauer (also called the lady in gold or the woman in gold) is a painting by gustav klimt, completed in the early twentieth century. the portrait is the final and most fully Portrait of a Woman in Yellow Dress Painted Print on Canvas Madison Bay Company