Gustav Klimt
Sitzender Halbakt mit Schal 🐷(Seated semi-nude witꦉh scarf)
Lot Closed
January 30, 02:27 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Gustav Klimt
1862 – 1918
Sitzender Halbakt mit Schal (Seated semi-nude with scarf)
signed (lower right) (possibly by another hand?)
watercolour, pencil and white gouache on paper
50 by 32.5 cm.
19¾ by 12¾ in.
Executed in 1916-17.
The hand of the signature has historically been questioned by Alice Strob🔯l (see catalogue raisonné entry for no. 2844) how꧟ever this query has never been fully clarified.
SPECIAL NOTE:
The present work is hel🉐d in a Successionist style hardwood, ebony and rosewood marquetry frame. This frame contains endangered species. Sotheby's recommends that buyers check with their own government regarding any importation requirements prior to placing a bid. For example, US regulations restrict or prohibit the import of certain items to protect wildlife conservation. Please note that Sotheby's will not assist buyers with the shipment of this lot to the US. A buyer's inability to export or import these lots cannot justify a delay in pay♋ment or sale cancellation.
Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna (by 1974)
Collection Dr. Heinrich Lill, Vienna
Dorotheum, Vienna, 31 May 2005, lot 6 (so𒐪ld🅠 by the estate of the above to benefit the Charity for the Wiener Stephans Dom)
Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 November 2006, lot 6
Private Collection
Collection Heidi Horten, Vienna (acquired from the above in ꩲ2014)
As a gift fromꦑ the above to Udo Jürgens for his 80th Birthday on 30 September 2014
Von Mitgliedern der Gesellschaft der Freunde der Albertina, 1🅺00 Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz, Vienna, 1975, no. 69
Christian M. Nebehay, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag, Vienna, 1979, p. 135, illustrated
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1878 - 1918, Salzburg, 1980-89, vol. III, no. 2844, p. 160, p. 176 and p. 179, illustrated (listed as connected with "Leda")
Maria Marchetti (ed.), Wien um 1900: Kunst und Kultur, Vienna, 1985, p. 123, illustrated
Rainer Metzger, Gustav Klimt: Drawings & Watercolors, London 200𝓀5, no. 263, p. 343, ill༺ustrated (listed as study for "Leda")
Vienna, Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt: Handzeichnungen, Secessionsplakate, 1974, no. 25, illustra🤪ted on the cover of the catalogue
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Le arti a Vienna della Secessione alla caduta dell'impero asburgico, 1984, no. 2, p. 179, illustrated (listed as study for "Leda")