Gustav Klimt
Liegender Halbakt nach rechts, die Beine angezogen, Wiederholung der Gesaßpartie (Reclining half nude to the right, legs drawn up, repetition of the backside)
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Liegender Halbakt nach rechts, die Beine angezogen, Wiederholung der Gesaßpartie (Reclining half nude to the right, legs drawn up, repetition of the backside)
Liegender Halbakt nach rechts, die Beine angezogen, Wiederholung der Gesaßpartie (Reclining half nude to the right, legs drawn up, repetition of the backside)
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Liegender Halbakt nach rechts, die Beine angezogen, Wiederholung der Gesaßpartie (Reclining half nude to the right, legs drawn up, repetition of the backside)
signed Gustav Klimt (lower left)
pencil on paper
37 by 56cm., 14½ by 22in.
Framed: 56.5 by 74.3cm., 22¼ by 29¼in.
Drawn circa 1912-13.
Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged in two places on the upper edge of the verso to a window mount. There is some slight mount staining along all four edges and some handling wear to the lower left corner. There is some faint abrasion to the upper left corner, possibly from a previous hinge, and faint studio staining throughout the sheet. This work is in very good condition.
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