Live Auction 2023Impressionist and Modern Art
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 11

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Portrait einer Frau

Closed10 September 2008

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Portrait einer Frau
bears inscription
charcoal with white heightening on buff paper
17¼ x 12 5/8 in. (43.8 x 32.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1890-1891

Estate of the artist.
Gustav Ucicky, Vienna (by descent from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Specialist note

Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken will include this work in her forthcoming supplement volume of the drawings of Gustav Klimt.


The current drawing was likely prepared as a study for the figure of Pallas Athene in the Allegory of "Griechische Antike," decoration for the grand staircase of the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.