In "Femme Vitale", his article on Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964) in the 10 February 2025 issue of "The New Yorker", Alex Ross recalls that the woman born in Vienna as Alma Schindler had three husbands: composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969), and Franz Werfel (1890-1945). Between her marriages to Mahler and Gropius, she also had an affair with painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). But Ross also mentions something I didn't know: her first kiss was with painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). I liked that extra twist even more when I thought of Klimt's painting known as "The Kiss" (1907-1908) and then learned that some critics think Mahler-Werfel might have posed for it. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 26 April 2025)