Lot 236
  • 236

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Amalie Zuckerkandl stehend von vorne (Amalie Zuckerkandl standing from the front)
  • pencil on paper
  • 55.7 by 36.8cm., 21 7/8 by 14 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 17th March 1955, lot 210
Private Collection, Vienna (probably purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, Salzburg, 1984, vol. III, no. 2474a, illustrated p. 87

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and intermittently affixed with hinges to the mount, floating in the mount. There is a vertical, circa 10cm, flattened crease towards the centre of the left edge. Minor diagonal crease to the upper right corner. A pin sized hole to the lower right corner, and a small paper loss to the extreme right of the lower edge. Pin sized loss towards the lower left extreme edge. Some light time-staining to the sheet and very minor undulation. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The present work is a study for the unfinished painting Potrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl.