Gustav Klimt

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

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Description

Gustav Klimt
AUF DEM RÜCKEN LIEGENDER AKT NACH RECHTS(RECLINING NUDE TO THE RIGHT)
stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
red crayon on paper
34.8 by 55.2cm., 13 3/4 by 21 1/4 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner

Exhibited

Vienna, Albertina, Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 Zeichnungen, Gedächtnisausstellung, 1962, no. 73
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 3. Internationale der Zeichnung: Sonderausstellung Gustav Klimt und Henri Matisse, 1970, no. 105, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Nebehay, Gustav-Klimt Dokumentation, Vienna, 1969, illustrated in colour pl. X
Christian Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, Sein Leben nach zeitgenössichen Berichten und Quellen, Munich, 1976, illustrated p. 193
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Salzburg, 1982, vol. II, no. 1453, illustrated p. 90

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, hinged to the mount in the top two corners. There are artist's pin holes to all four corners. Apart from two minor creases in the lower left quadrant, this work is in good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

'Klimt's senses grasp the invisible and immaterial in shapes and lines, as he searches for the secrets that cover everything alive.'
B. Zuckerkandl quoted in Gustav Klimt, The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections (exhibition catalogue), Neue Galerie, New York, 2007, p. 157

Fig. 1, Gustav Klimt, Wasserschlangen II, 1904-07, oil on canvas, Private Collection