Lot 180
  • 180

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Liegender Halbakt nach rechts, mit überschlagenen Beinen (Semi-Nude Turned to the Right with her Legs Crossed)
  • stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
  • blue crayon on paper
  • 37 by 56cm., 14 5/8 by 22in.

Provenance

Annemarie Düringer, Vienna (acquired circa 1970s; sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th June 2015, lot 335)
Private Collection, New York (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Vienna, Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, 150 bedeutende Zeichnungen, 1962, no. 33b, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, Salzburg, 1984, vol. III, no. 2427, illustrated p. 75

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and affixed with tape to the mount at all four corners. The sheet is time stained and there are fine flattened creases in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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