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Gustav Klimt

Zwei Studien eines weiblichen Rückenaktes (Two Studies of the Back of Two Female Nudes)

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October 17, 12:04 PM GMT

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30,000 - 40,000 GBP

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Gustav Klimt

1863 - 1918

Zwei Studien eines weiblichen Rückenaktes (Two Studies of the Back of Two Female Nudes)

signed with the monogram G.K. (lower left)

pencil on paper

44.9 by 31.7 cm. 17⅝ by 12⅜ in.

Framed: 67 by 54 cm. 26⅜ by 21¼ in.

Executed in 1902.

Erich Lederer, Geneva (until at least 1973)

Christie's London, 25 June 1985, lot 317

Private Collection, Japan

Acquired from the above by the present owner

London, The Piccadilly Gallery & New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Company Ltd., Gustav Klimt, 1973, no. 37, illustrated (titled Studies of nudes and as dating from 1906-08)

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, vol. I, Salzburg, 1980, no. 779, p. 235, illustrated