Carol Bergman

Klimt stood for a moment behind a kiosk covered with advertising posters for the upcoming opera season and observed his new model in full color spectrum which the sepia photograph had camouflaged. Already, he was designing his palette: Her lips, coral red, her hair and full peaked eyebrows a lush black, her skin porcelain white with flushed cheeks the color of autumn suffused with earthen sienna and ochre hues.
—“Sitting for Klimt”

From journalist and essayist Carol Bergman comes an intriguing collection of five novellas in Sitting for Klimt. Each story evokes the work of a famous artist—Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, John Singer Sargent, Maria Izquierdo, and a Sumerian woman working in Egypt during the reign of Akhenaton and Nefertiti more than three thousand years ago. Bergman explores the artists’ models, families, and the times in which they lived. Loosely based on historical research, these stories are gems of color, light, and love. Told in a variety of literary styles from first and third person to realistic and magically real, "Sitting for Klimt" is an elegant portrayal of the artistic mind.

A Reader's Choice, Editor's Choice and Publisher's Choice Selection.