Hope II (Detail) - Art Prints Gustav Klimt Landscape and Floral Paintings "The Fall of Icarus (La

"The Fall of Icarus (La Chute d'Icare)

as precise as the landscape of his childhood

"Van Gogh" by Paul Gauguin is his very famous painting

he was shipwrecked off the Andaman Islands

drawbridges and the city do not sleep

Hope II (Detail) - Art Prints Gustav Klimt Landscape and Floral Paintings "The Fall of Icarus (LaKlimt painted the heavily pregnant Herma in Hope I in 1903, in which she was depicted naked. In Hope II, she is wearing a long dress or cloak decorated with geometric shapes. She has long brown hair and closed eyes, bowing hear head towards her bare breasts and burgeoning abdomen. An incongruous human skull appears attached to the front of her clothing perhaps a sign of the dangers of labour, or possibly a memento mori (in Hope I, she is also