Live Auction 13756The Collection of the late Lord Weidenfeld GBE: A Life of Ideals and Ideas
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 513

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Stehender Frauenakt nach rechts

Closed18 May 2017

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Stehender Frauenakt nach rechts
inscribed 'Nachlass meiner Brüder Gustav Hermine Klimt' (lower right)
pencil on paper
22 ½ x 14 5/8 in. (57 x 37.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1915-1916, framed

The artist's estate.
Hermine Klimt, by descent from the above.
With Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Private collection, by whom acquired in 1976; sold Sotheby's, London, 5 April 1989, lot 320, where acquired by Lord Weidenfeld.

Specialist note

Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in her forthcoming addition to the Klimt Catalogue raisonné.

According to Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken the present drawing relates to the group of studies Klimt made for the oil Die Freundinnen, 1916-1917 (Strobl nos. 2755-2811).