UDO - The Personal Collection of the late Udo Jürgens
UDO - The Personal Collection of the late Udo Jürgens
Gustav Klimt
Sitzender Halbakt mit Schal (Seated semi-nude with scarf)
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Gustav Klimt
1862 – 1918
Sitzender Halbakt mit Schal (Seated semi-nude with scarf)
signed (lower right)
watercolour, pencil and white gouache on paper
50 by 32.5 cm.
19¾ by 12¾ in.
Executed in 1916-17.
SPECIAL NOTE:
The present work is held in a Successionist style hardwood, ebony and rosewood marquetry frame. This frame contains endangered species. Sotheby's recommends that buyers check with their own government regarding any importation requirements prior to placing a bid. For example, US regulations restrict or prohibit the import of certain items to protect wildlife conservation. Please note that Sotheby's will not assist buyers with the shipment of this lot to the US. A buyer's inability to export or import these lots cannot justify a delay in payment or sale cancellation.
Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna (by 1974)
Collection Dr. Heinrich Lill, Vienna
Dorotheum, Vienna, 31 May 2005, lot 6 (sold by the estate of the above to benefit the Charity for the Wiener Stephans Dom)
Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 November 2006, lot 6
Private Collection
Collection Heidi Horten, Vienna (acquired from the above in 2014)
As a gift from the above to Udo Jürgens for his 80th Birthday on 30 September 2014
Christian M. Nebehay, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag, Vienna 1979, p. 135, illustrated
Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1878 - 1918, Salzburg 1980-89, vol. III, no. 2844, p. 160, p. 176 and p. 179, illustrated (listed as connected with "Leda")
Rainer Metzger, Gustav Klimt: Drawings & Watercolors, London 2005, no. 263, p. 343, illustrated (listed as study for "Leda")
Vienna, Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt: Handzeichnungen, Secessionsplakate, 1974, no. 25, illustrated on the cover of the catalogue
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Le arti a Vienna della Secessione alla caduta dell'impero asburgico, 1984, no. 2, p. 179, illustrated (listed as study for "Leda")