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Property of a Private West Coast Collector

Gustav Klimt

Kniende Frau (Studie für 'Tod und Leben') (Kneeling Woman (Study for 'Death and Life'))

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private West Coast Collector

Gustav Klimt

1862 – 1918 


Kniende Frau (Studie für 'Tod und Leben') (Kneeling Woman (Study for 'Death and Life'))

stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right) 

blue pencil on paper 

22 ⅛ by 14 ⅝ in.    

56.2 by 37.2 cm. 

Executed circa 1912-13. 

 

Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Albertina, Vienna, will include this work in her Supplement to Alice Strobl's catalogue raisonné of Klimt’s drawings. 

Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London  

Joseph Goldyne, California (acquired from the above in 1973) 

Addison Fine Arts, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 2008) 

Acquired from the above in 2010 by the present owner

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter, 2017 – 2018, no. 58, p. 193, illustrated in color (dated circa 1912-13)

San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, 2006, no. 38, pp. 92-93, illustrated in color