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Great artists throughout history have expressed the human experience in a universal language of form and beauty. The Montblanc Masters of Art Collection honors their eternal contribution to the quest for perfection in art – a quest Montblanc both celebrates and participates in. One artist whose vision helped shape Viennese Art Nouveau and the Golden Age is Gustav Klimt. The Montblanc Masters of Art Homage to Gustav Klimt Limited Edition 4810 celebrates his artistic beginnings in the Vienna Seeecession and highlights elements from his masterpieces Pallas Athene and The Kiss in its design. In his rebellion against stereotypical concepts in art and society, Gustav Klimt was a pioneer of the avant-garde. He fused realistic representation, ormentation and abstraction in a style that reached its culmination in his large scale, subtly sensual paintings of women. One of his first paintings to place equal value on the ornament and the sitter was a portrait from 1902 of his partner and

the color evoking spring, the season of new beginnings. Klimt's Secession monogram, a gold-colored tampon print of his initials, GK, is a tribute to his achievements for the Vienna Secession. The clip of the Homage to Gustav Klimt Limited Edition 4810 is specially designed with reference to Gustav Klimt’s Pallas Athene. Since Athena is the goddess of both war and the arts, she is depicted launching the struggle for artistic freedom. The slightly curved lines ending in three spirals on the yellow gold-coated clip correspond to the decoration on the forged metal frame. The handcrafted solid Au 750 yellow gold nib is finely engraved with an owl, which symbolized knowledge, wisdom and insight and was considered the faithful animal companion of the Greek goddess Athena. The engraving is both a reference to Gustav Klimt's painting of Pallas Athena and to the Secession building, whose facades are decorated with owl sculptures.