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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 1097

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Rückenakt einer Schwangeren

Closed13 November 2015

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Rückenakt einer Schwangeren
black chalk on paper
17 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (45.5 x 32.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1902

Estate of the artist.
Phillip B. Welch, Santa Fe (circa 1970).
By descent from the above to 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 drawings by Gustav Klimt.

The present work is related to a group of studies by the artist for Die Hoffnung I, 1903, in the collection of The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa.