Gustav Klimt

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Description

Gustav Klimt
ATHLET IM PROFIL NACH RECHTS, FRAUENAKT VON VORNE (ATHLETE IN PROFILE FACING RIGHT, FEMALE NUDE SEEN FROM THE FRONT)
stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
pencil on paper
56 by 37.5cm., 22 by 14 3/4 in.

Provenance

Georg Klimt, Vienna
Otto Brill, Vienna
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, Salzburg, 1984, vol. III, p. 191, no. 2899, illustrated

Catalogue Note

The present work is a study for the larger oil of the same date, titled Adam und Eva now in the Österreichisse Galerie, Vienna (see: F. Novotny & J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1975, no. 220)