Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Stehender Akt von vorne, die Hnde an der linken Schulter

Details

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Klimt, G.
Stehender Akt von vorne, die Hnde an der linken Schulter
signed with initials 'G.K.' (lower left)
black chalk on tan paper
Drawn in 1902

Provenance

M. Knoedler, Zurich
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Galerie Nichido, Paris

Literature

A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, Salzburg, 1989, vol. IV (Nachtrag 1878-1918), p. 112, no. 3453a (illustrated, p.113).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Berggruen, Gustav Klimt, Vingt Dessins, 1984 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

This drawing is a study for the central Gorgon at the left side of the 'Hostile Powers' section of Klimt's Beethovenfries, 1902 (Dobai no. 127; The Erich Lederer Collection, sterreichische Galerie, Vienna). This decorative frieze was painted in three sections for adjacent walls at the Viennese Secession building, in conjunction with the 1902 exhibition of Max Klinger's statue of Beethoven.

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