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Lot 533
  • 533

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Stehender Mädchenakt nach links, die Haare mit den Händen haltend (Standing female nude turning left, holding her hair)
  • signed Gustav Klimt (lower left)
  • black crayon on paper
  • 45.4 by 31.5cm., 18 by 12 1/2 in.

Provenance

Carl Reininghaus, Vienna (acquired directly from the artist in 1903)
August Lederer, Vienna, Györ & Hungary (acquired from the above in 1915)
Erich Lederer, Vienna, Györ & Geneva (by descent from the above, until 1985)
Private Collection (sale: Sotheby's, London, 13th June 2010, lot 118)
Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, Vienna (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Vienna, Albertina, Gustav Klimt 1862-1918, Zeichnungen, Gedächtnisausstellung, 1962, no. 45

Literature

Fritz Novotny & Johannes Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1967, mentioned p. 327
Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Der Beethovenfries, Salzburg, 1977, illustrated p. 121
Hans H. Hofstätter, Gustav Klimt, Erotische Zeichnungen, Cologne, 1979, no. 2, illustrated pl. 1
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, vol. I, no. 791, illustrated p. 237

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The work is not laid down but hinged at all four corners and at along the centre of the left and right edges and floating in the mount. The sheet is time stained. There are minor creases to the paper in places, especially along left edge and top right corner. The paper is slightly unevenly cut along lower edge. Overall good condition.
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