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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 285 PROPERTY FROM THE JUDITH AND ABRAHAM AMAR FOUNDATION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Stehend nach links, Skizze des Kragens von hinten; Study for Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait

Closed25 June 2008

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Stehend nach links, Skizze des Kragens von hinten; Study for Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait
black crayon on simili Japan paper
17¼ x 12 3/8 in. (44 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1903-1904

Galerie Welz, Salzburg.
Mrs. K. Crawford; sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1977, lot 110.
Galerie Brandstätter, Vienna.
Galerie Knoedler, New York/Zurich.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2004, lot 474.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Specialist note

This work is a preparatory study for the large oil portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, dated 1907, now in the Neue Galerie, New York (Novotny-Dobai, no. 150).