Gustav Klimt
Zusammengekauerter und nach rechts stehender Frauenakt (Crouched Female Nude Standing to the Right)
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July 6, 10:38 AM GMT
Estimate
28,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Zusammengekauerter und nach rechts stehender Frauenakt (Crouched Female Nude Standing to the Right)
Black chalk on paper;
signed G.K. (lower centre) and inscribed R (lower right)
447 by 307 mm
Executed in 1902
Erich Lederer;
Piccadilly Gallery, London (acquired by 1973),
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Piccadilly Gallery, London (acquired by 1973),
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, no. 821, illustrated p. 243
London, Piccadilly Gallery & New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Co., Gustav Klimt, 1973-74, no. 24, illustrated in the catalogue
The present work is a preparatory study for Klimt’s Beethovenfries from 1902, designed for the Vienna Secession building in conjunction with an exhibition of Max Klinger’s statue of Beethoven in April-June 1902.