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GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
Lot 532PROPERTY FROM THE ORANGE BLOSSOM COLLECTION

GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)

Studie zur Figur "Lex" in Rechtswissenschaft

Fermé11 November 2023

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GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918)
Studie zur Figur "Lex" in Rechtswissenschaft
signed 'GUSTAV KLIMT' (lower right)
black chalk on paper
16 ½ x 12 ¼ in. (42 x 31 cm.)
Drawn circa 1903

Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich.
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Paris (gift from the above); sale, Christie's, Paris, 23 February 2009, lot 8.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Study of a Woman for 'Jurisprudence' is a study for the famed painting by the artist, Jurisprudence, which joined with the works Philosophy and Medicine, comprised monumental panels depicting the three teachings at Vienna's Academy. Ordered by the Austrian government in 1894 to decorate the University of Vienna's entrance hall, these works were later destroyed by a fire caused by the Nazis in 1945. Today only studies and archival photographs of the paintings survive.

The present work is a study representing the personification of Law; the character holds in her hands a Common Law book, with the Latin word LEX written on the cover.