Lot 173
  • 173

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • MIT AUFGESTELLTEM RECHTEN BEIN SITZENDER AKT (SEATED NUDE WITH RAISED RIGHT LEG)
  • pencil on paper
  • 57 by 37.4cm., 22 3/8 by 14 3/4 in.

Provenance

Friederike Maria Beer-Monti, Vienna
Greta & Aaron Shapiro, California
Private Collection, USA
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Negru, 32 Dessins de Gustav Klimt, 1977, no. 21
Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Gustav Klimt Zeichnungen, 1978, no. 66 
Barcelona, Centro Cultural Tecla Sala, El Jardi d'Eros, 1999, no. 3
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, 2001-02
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny - Musée Maillol, Gustav Klimt, Papiers Érotiques, 2005, illustrated in colour the catalogue 

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Salzburg, 1982, vol. II, no. 1943, illustrated p. 233

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at the top two corners. There are two strips of restorer's tape to the reverse of the left edge. Apart from a 5cm. flattened crease to the upper left corner and a line of dirt cause by the overmount, this work is in very good condition. Colours: The paper tone is warmer in the original.
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