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Lot 547
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Studie für Die Freundinnen
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GBP 33,600
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Specialist note
Dr Marian Bisanz- Prakken has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in her forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonné.
This drawing is a rediscovered variation of the subject seen in numbers 2751 - 2812 in A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1982 (illustrated pp. 182-171). According to Dr Bisanz-Prakken, it was drawn circa 1916-17 and is one of the preliminary studies for the now destroyed painting Die Freundinnen which Klimt executed circa 1916-1917, (cf. F. Novotny & J. Dobai Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1975, no. 201 (fig. 1, illustrated pl. 104)).
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fig. 1 Gustav Klimt, Die Freundinnen, circa 1916-17 (destroyed in 1945 in Schloss Immendorf)
This drawing is a rediscovered variation of the subject seen in numbers 2751 - 2812 in A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen 1912-1918, vol. III, Salzburg, 1982 (illustrated pp. 182-171). According to Dr Bisanz-Prakken, it was drawn circa 1916-17 and is one of the preliminary studies for the now destroyed painting Die Freundinnen which Klimt executed circa 1916-1917, (cf. F. Novotny & J. Dobai Gustav Klimt, Salzburg, 1975, no. 201 (fig. 1, illustrated pl. 104)).
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fig. 1 Gustav Klimt, Die Freundinnen, circa 1916-17 (destroyed in 1945 in Schloss Immendorf)