Lot 423
  • 423

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Liegender Halbakt Nach Rechts (Half-nude reclining to the right)
  • Faintly stamped Gustav Klimt Nachlass (lower right)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 14 5/8 by 22 1/2 in.
  • 37.1 by 57.2 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Cass Canfield, New York
Galerie La Boétie (Helen Serger), New York
Acquired from the above circa 1975

Exhibited

Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery, Women as Sex Objects, 1976
Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina; Milan, Palazzo della Permanente (and travelling), Gustav Klimt: 100 Drawings, 1983-87, no. 73, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Europalia 87 Österreich, Gustav Klimt, no. 114
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918, 1989, n.n.
Halbturn, Schloss Halbturn; Rosenheim, Städtische Galerie; Hoescht, Jahrhunderthalle Hoescht (and travelling), Gustav Klimt: 100 Drawings, 1987-97, no. 91

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1984, no. 3005, illustrated p. 218

Condition

Executed on buff wove paper. Sheet is hinged to a mount at three places along the top edge on the verso. A few scattered repairs to extreme edges and few smalls stains on edges around upper left corner. Overall work is in very good condition.
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