Mappe für Zeichnungen von Gustav Klimt

细节

Wiener Werkstätte
Mappe für Zeichnungen von Gustav Klimt
with the raised initials in gold leaf 'GK' (on the cover); with the Wiener Werkstätte stamp (on the inside flap)
linen covered board with gold leaf interior
open: 24 3/8 x 41 5/8 in. (61.7 x 105.8 cm.)
closed: 24 3/8 x 16½ in. (61.7 x 41.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1905

来源

August & Serena Lederer, Vienna, by whom acquired in 1919, and thence by descent.
Confiscated by the National Socialists and transferred to Alt Aussee.
Recovered by the Western allies (inv. no. 929), and returned to the Lederer family by 1948.
Erich Lederer, Vienna & Geneva, and thence by descent to his wife.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

拍品专文

The present portfolio was produced by the Wiener Werkstätte circa 1905 to enclose drawings by Gustav Klimt which were acquired by the artist's most prominent patrons, August and Serena Lederer. When the portfolio was recovered from Alt Aussee by the Western Allies in 1948 and returned to the Lederer family, it contained 159 drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The Wiener Werkstätte production community was formed out of the Vienna Secession in 1903, and the chief designers from this period were Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.