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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lot 188

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Liegender Halbakt nach rechts

Closed6 February 2020

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Liegender Halbakt nach rechts
signed 'GUSTAV KLIMT' (lower right)
pencil on paper
14 ½ x 21 7/8 in. (36.8 x 55.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1913-1914

(possibly) Galerie Würthle, Vienna.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired in the 1970s.
Acquired form the above by the present owner.

Specialist note


Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken will include this work in the forthcoming supplement volume of the catalogue raisonné of drawings by Gustav Klimt.

The present study of a reclining semi-nude relates to Klimt's major oil from 1917, Leda (Novotny & Dobai, no. 202); this work was subsequently destroyed in 1945 due to a fire set by retreating German forces at Schloss Immendorf, Austria.