Live Auction 1104Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 220 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Bildniskopf von vorne (recto); Stehende Dame mit Umhang (verso)

Closed7 February 2013

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GBP 34,850

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Bildniskopf von vorne (recto); Stehende Dame mit Umhang (verso)
with the Nachlass stamp (lower right; 1575)
pencil on paper
22½ x 14¾ in. (57 x 37.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1914-1916

August Lederer, Vienna, acquired directly from the artist.
Erich Lederer, Vienna & Geneva.
Elisabeth Lederer, Geneva, by descent from the above.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired in 1999.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is related to the painting Bildnis Baronin Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt from 1914 (Novotny-Dobai 188).


The recto is a portrait study and the verso a costume study for the oil portrait of Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt (née Lederer).