GUSTAV KLIMT | RECLINING WOMAN, STANDING MAN AND STUDY OF FEET

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October 5, 05:24 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

GUSTAV KLIMT

1862 - 1918

RECLINING WOMAN, STANDING MAN AND STUDY OF FEET

Signed Gustav Klimt (lower right)

Black chalk on paper

18¾ by 12¼ in. (47.7 by 31.1 cm)

Framed: 25 by 19½ in. (63.5 by 49.5 cm)

Executed circa 1900.

Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Albertina, Vienna, will include this work in her Supplement to Alice Strobl's catalogue raisonné of Klimt’s drawings. We would also like to thank her for her assistance cataloguing the work.

Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired by 1965)

Kramer-McGeehan Collection, New York (acquired by 1989)

Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired by January 1997)

Acquired by 1999

This drawing is a study for Gustav Klimt's Die Medizin, one of the paintings the artist executed for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between 1900–1907.