Tim Bonyhady
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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They tried to blend in.
to become good Australians and they had the same kind of aspiration for us and so there was quite a lot of publicly suppression or hiding of at times even the family's refugee origins and definitely our Jewish origins and I knew some stories.
So Keita, in the early 1960s, wanting to thank Australia for being so good to the Gulliers, for the lives they'd been able to live in Australia, she offered the picture as a gift to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
They must have been stoked.
They weren't.
They weren't stoked.
They rejected the picture.
And in hindsight, it is one of the most terrible blunders of an Australian art museum.
In Vienna, he was always regarded as the greatest artist of the early 20th century.
But he wasn't a kind of megastar of world art.
He had nothing like the reputation he has now.
And suddenly he becomes like the artist of hippies and flower power and his painting The Kiss becomes one of the most popular posters in the world.
You know, university students would have it on their, the walls of their rooms and all those kind of things happen and his prices just go up and up and up and up.
But in the early 1960s, that was sort of just beginning.
Klimt's prices were escalating and there needed to be money to pay for nursing homes and carers and all those sort of things.
And the Klimt was the thing to take off the wall and sell and
that when that picture was sold at Christie's in a kind of significant auction of modern art, which included Picassos and stuff, and the picture sold for 20,000 guineas.
I go every time I'm in London.
It's a way of sort of touching base, not only with my childhood, but also my kind of family's lives and origins across more than...
The century, I kind of think of it, I think, as going to visit my great-grandmother, who, of course, I never met.
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