Lot 324
  • 324

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Stehender Frauenakt von vorne mit erhobenem rechten Arm (Standing female nude viewed from the front, her right arm raised (Study for Veritas))
  • stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
  • black crayon on paper
  • 45,5 x 31,5 cm; 17 7/8  x 12 3/8  in.
crayon noir sur papier

Provenance

Private Collection, Austria
Sale: Im Kinsky, Vienna, November 20, 2007, lot 5
Antal Post de Bekessy (acquired at the above sale)
Estate of Mr. Antal Post de Bekessy, deceased in 2015

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, vol. I, no. 921, illustrated p. 267

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached at all four corners and at the centre of the right and left edge and floating in the mount. The sheet is time stained. The right edge is cut unevenly and has a crease line running from top to bottom. There are some diagonal creases below the signature stamp and some other minor creases to the paper. There are some faint foxing marks. This work is in overall good condition.
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