Lot Essay
This work is a preparatory study for the large oil portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, dated 1907, now in the Neue Galerie, New York (Novotny-Dobai, no. 150).
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Stehend nach links, Skizze des Kragens von hinten; Study for Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait
Details
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Stehend nach links, Skizze des Kragens von hinten; Study for Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait
black crayon on simili Japan paper
17¼ x 12 3/8 in. (44 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1903-1904
Stehend nach links, Skizze des Kragens von hinten; Study for Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait
black crayon on simili Japan paper
17¼ x 12 3/8 in. (44 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1903-1904
Provenance
Galerie Welz, Salzburg.
Mrs. K. Crawford; sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1977, lot 110.
Galerie Brandstätter, Vienna.
Galerie Knoedler, New York/Zurich.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2004, lot 474.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Mrs. K. Crawford; sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1977, lot 110.
Galerie Brandstätter, Vienna.
Galerie Knoedler, New York/Zurich.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2004, lot 474.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen, vol. I, 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, no. 1102 (illustrated p. 312).
Exhibited
Zurich, Galerie Knoedler, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, James Ensor, Alfred Kubin. Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, 1983, no. 5 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Tokyo Art Gallery, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele mit Werken von Alfred Kubin. Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, 1985, no. 11 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Tokyo Art Gallery, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele mit Werken von Alfred Kubin. Künstler der Jahrhundertwende, 1985, no. 11 (illustrated).
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium
Sale Room Notice
Please note that there is the Nachlass stamp on the reverse (slightly faded).