GUSTAV KLIMT | Den linken Arm etwas eingebeugt (Studie für Bildnis Adele Bloch-Bauer) (Slightly Bent Left Arm, Study for the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer)

Galerie Welz, Salzburg
Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna
Private Collection, Vienna (acquired from the above in Vienna circa 1985)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1904-1912, Vienna, 1982, vol. II, no. 2079, illustrated p. 267

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there are a few spots of foxing in places, most notably to the centre of the right edge, as well as to the left part of the lower edge. There are flattened creases to the lower corners, as well as to the upper left corner. There is some light paper skinning to the extreme edges of the verso due to previous mounting. This work is in overall good condition.
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