Lot Essay
According to Alice Strobl, the present work is a study for Klimt's seminal work Bildnis Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, now in the Neue Galerie, New York.
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JACK JOSEPHSON
GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
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GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
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charcoal and red colored pencil on paper
18 x 11 ¾ in. (45.7 x 31.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1903
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charcoal and red colored pencil on paper
18 x 11 ¾ in. (45.7 x 31.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1903
Provenance
Baroness Luise Gattin, Vienna and Vancouver (née Bloch-Bauer, niece of the sitter); sale, Kornfield und Klipstein, Bern, 18 June 1965, lot 502a.
La Boetie, Inc. (Helen Serger), New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, May 1971.
La Boetie, Inc. (Helen Serger), New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, May 1971.
Literature
F. Novotny and J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1967, p. 340.
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903, Salzberg, 1980, p. 306, no. 1076 (illustrated, p. 307).
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903, Salzberg, 1980, p. 306, no. 1076 (illustrated, p. 307).