Eclectic | New York
Eclectic | New York
SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE | Property from a Private Collection, New York
GUSTAV KLIMT | SCHLAFENDES MÄDCHEN (SLEEPING GIRL)
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May 1, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Property from a Private Collection, New York
GUSTAV KLIMT
1862 - 1918
SCHLAFENDES MÄDCHEN (SLEEPING GIRL)
stamped Gustav Klimt Nachlass
pencil on paper
Sheet: 14⅝ by 22 in. (37.1 by 55.8 cm.)
Framed: 22½ by 29½ in. (57.2 by 74.9 cm.)
Executed in 1912-13.
This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the Klimt Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Albertina, Vienna.
Estate of the artist
Professor Susini, Vienna
Private Collection, Paris
Katrin Bellinger, Munich
Claire & Garrick Stephenson, New York (acquired from the above in May 1998)
Private Collection, New York
Gifted from the above to the present owner
"Everything was meant to seem as if these acts were the result of the most natural of drives and as if it were simply the intrinsic condition of woman to be centred on her own sexuality, deep in thought and lost in dreams."
(Rainer Metzger, Gustav Klimt, Drawings & Watercolours, London, 2005, p.76)