Lot 265
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GUSTAV KLIMT | Liegender Akt nach rechts (Nude Reclining to the Right)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Liegender Akt nach rechts (Nude Reclining to the Right)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 14 3/8 by 22 in.
  • 36.5 by 55.9 cm
  • Executed in 1914.

Provenance

Galerie Ariadne, Vienna
Friedrich Grohe, Echandens
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, May 19, 1953, lot 240
Private Collection (and sold: Dorotheum, Vienna, June 15-18, 1971, lot 295)
Sale: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, May 27, 1975, lot 925
Galerie Welz, Salzburg
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, London, February 10, 2011, lot 234)
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1984, no. 2450, illustrated p. 81

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is t-hinged at three places along the upper edge of its verso. Inscribed extensively by another hand on the verso, including the artist name and title. The sheet is lightly time stained. Scattered marks of foxing throughout. There are flattened creases to all four corners. There is a single spot of skinning to the center of the top edge. There is a small nick to the top half of the left edge. This work is in good condition.
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