Live Auction 3737Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 1147

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Sitzende im Profil, zwei Studien eines weiblichen Profilkopfs

Closed15 May 2015

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Sitzende im Profil, zwei Studien eines weiblichen Profilkopfs
with Nachlass stamp (Lugt 1575; lower right)
pencil on paper
19 ¼ x 14 ½ in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1904-1905

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 February 2004, lot 45.
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Private collection, Connecticut.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Albertina, Vienna, will include this work in the forthcoming supplement volume of the catalogue raisonné of Klimt's drawings.

The present work is related to a group of studies by the artist for Hoffnung II from 1907-1908, in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.