Lot 111
  • 111

Gustav Klimt

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gustav Klimt
  • RÜCKENHALBAKT NACH LINKS (SEMI-NUDE, BACK VIEW FACING LEFT)
  • stamped with the Nachlass mark (lower right)
  • pencil on paper
  • 56 by 36.6cm., 22 by 14 3/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Sale: Neumeister Auktionshaus, Munich, 17th September 1986, lot 854
Private Collection, Vienna
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1988

Exhibited

Barcelona, Centro Cultural Tecla Sala, El Jardi d'Eros, 1999

Literature

'Rückblick 1986' in Beilage zur Weltkunst, 15th January 1987, illustrated
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, Nachtrag 1878-1918, Salzburg, 1989, vol. IV, no. 3656, illustrated p. 179

Condition

Executed on cream coloured wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at the top two corners. There is a 4cm. flattened crease to the left of the upper edge, and a 2cm. flattened crease to the centre of the upper edge, and some smaller very faint flattened creases running down the left edge. Apart from some handling marks to the periphery of the sheet, and some light surface dirt, this work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate although the medium is stronger.
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