Lot 404
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GUSTAV KLIMT | Brustbild eines Mädchens mit herabhängenden Haaren (Half-length Portrait of a Girl with Flowing Hair)

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Brustbild eines Mädchens mit herabhängenden Haaren (Half-length Portrait of a Girl with Flowing Hair)
  • Stamped with the Nachlass mark
  • Pencil on paper
  • 22 1/4 by 14 5/8 in.
  • 56.5 by 37.1 cm
  • Executed in 1915.

Provenance

Sale: Auktion Karl Faber, Munich, October 19 & 20, 1965, lot 1382
John T. Dorrance, Jr., Pennsylvania (and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, October 19, 1989, lot 106)
Acquired at the above sale 

Exhibited

Vienna, Christian M. Nebehay, Katalog XI, Gustav Klimt, 56 Zeichnungen, 1967, no. 55, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

"Wien um 1900," in Die Weltkunst, March 15, 1967, illustrated p. 217
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1982, no. 2639, illustrated p. 136

Condition

Executed buff-colored wove paper. The sheet is hinged to a mount at two places along the upper edge of its verso. There is some remnant of adhesives visible along the top edge. There are some handling creases, most notably in the lower right corner. There is scattered staining along the right and left edges as well as in the figure's face. There is a nail-head sized area of repair at center of the top edge. The sheet is slightly time-faded overall. The work is in overall good condition.
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