Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 178

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Studie für Die Braut

Closed5 May 2011

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Studie für Die Braut
bears inscription
pencil on paper
21 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (55.5 x 36.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1917-1918

Estate of the artist.
Anon. sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 23 November 2004, lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken will include this drawing in her forthcoming supplement to the Klimt catalogue raisonné.

The present work is a preparatory drawing for Die Braut (fig. 1), painted in 1917-1918.

(fig. 1) Gustav Klimt, Die Braut (detail), 1917-1918. Private collection.