Im Lehnstuhl sitzende mit angezogenen Beinen (Studie für Danaë)

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Im Lehnstuhl sitzende mit angezogenen Beinen (Studie für Danaë)
red crayon on paper
17 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (45.2 x 32 cm.)
Drawn circa 1903

Provenance

Private collection, Austria.
Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 26 November 2003, lot 9.
Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, by 2005.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Maillol, Gustav Klimt: Papiers érotiques, March - May 2005, p. 35 (illustrated).
New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, Gustav Klimt: Ten Drawings, May - July 2007, no. 10, p. 24 (illustrated p. 25; dated '1907-1908').

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Lot Essay

Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Albertina, Vienna, will include this work in the forthcoming supplement volume of the catalogue raisonné of drawings by Gustav Klimt.
The present work is one of a series of studies for Gustav Klimt's masterpiece painting Danaë (Novotny & Dobai, no. 151; private collection). A popular subject in the early 1900s, Danaë is a figure from Greek mythology, She was imprisoned in a bronze tower by her father, the King of Argos, where she was visited by Zeus, symbolised in the painting by the golden rain flowing between Danaë's legs.

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