Anne-Marie O'Connor

Anne-Marie O'Connor is an American journalist and writer who authored The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the bestselling story of the battle by Vienna emigre Maria Altmann to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings from her native Austria in an eight-year legal battle by Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg;[1][2] a saga that also inspired a Harvey Weinstein movie, Woman in Gold, in which Helen Mirren played Maria Altmann. One of the paintings, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for a record $135 million in 2006, to Ronald Lauder's Neue Galerie New York, where the painting is on view.

Not to be confused with Anne-Maree O'Connor.
Anne-Marie O'Connor
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Genrenon-fiction
Website
www.annemarieoconnor.com

Life

A longtime journalist in Latin America, O'Connor covered the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador as a Central America bureau chief for Reuters. She was also a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, UPI, and the Cox Newspaper chain, and has written for Esquire, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Nation. She is a speaker on the subject of the Nazi plunder of art and restitution.

Selected works
  • The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Knopf. January 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-26564-7.
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References
  1. Eakin, Hugh (February 18, 2012). "The Legacy of a Golden a saga dramatized in the Harvey Weinstein film Woman in Gold. Instant". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. "Fight For Klimt Portrait A Fight To Reclaim History". NPR. March 31, 2012.
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