Gustav Klimt

The American Gallery, New York
Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above circa 2005

Executed on buff-colored wove paper. Affixed to mount at two points at upper edge and one point at center bottom on verso. 4 in. soft crease across upper right corner; few soft creases lower left corner. Other scattered creases throughout. Few small repaired tears along extreme edges, mostly at left half of upper edge and at lower right center. Minor surface dirt along edges; scattered pin dots of visible fiber inherent to sheet. Otherwise in very good condition. "No. 194" at extreme upper right corner, likely by another hand.
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The present work is likely a study for one of the female heads in the painting Irrlichter of 1903.