Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Stehender Frauenakt nach links (Study for Jurisprudenz)

signed lower right Gustav Klimt, pencil on paper
17½ x 12 1/8in. (44.5 x 30.8cm.)

Executed circa 1902

Provenance

Karl Wittgenstein, Vienna, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

Dr Marian Bisanz-Präkken has confirmed the authenticity of this work and kindly pointed out that this drawing is a study for the oil Jurisprudenz of 1903-7 (F. Novotny & J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1975, no. 15). Related drawings appear in A. Strobl Gustav Klimt Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, vol. I, nos. 870-874 and vol. 4, nos. 342-347a.

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