For this print, our customer has chosen a 70mm ‘Opus’ Ebony moulding (foils layered on a trafila base, distressed on high points to expose contrast base colour – red in this case).

The frame also includes a spacer between the frame and the print.

The print is on a canvas, so there is no requirement for it to be framed behind glass.  We dry mounted it onto board so the print is nice and flat.

The original of The Kiss (in German Der Kuss) is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. 

It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what scholars call his “Golden Period”. It was exhibited in 1908 under the title Liebespaar (the lovers) as stated in the catalogue of the exhibition.

The painting depicts a couple embracing each other, their bodies entwined in elaborate beautiful robes decorated in a style influenced by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement.

The original painting now hangs in the Ã–sterreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in Belvedere, Vienna, and is considered a masterpiece of Vienna Secession (local variation of Art Nouveau) and Klimt’s most popular work.