Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Stehend nach links (Adele Bloch-Bauer)

Details
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Stehend nach links (Adele Bloch-Bauer)
black Conté crayon on buff paper
18 x 12½ in. (45.7 x 31.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1903-1904
Provenance
Anon. sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 15 June 1974, lot 520.
Literature
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, vol. I, p. 312, no. 1103 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

This drawing belongs to an extensive series of studies of Adele Bloch-Bauer which Klimt executed over the course of four years in preparation for his lavish gilded masterpiece of 1907, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Novotny and Dobai, no. 150; Collection of the Neue Galerie, New York). Klimt painted Adele twice (see Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, Christie's, New York, Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, 8 November 2006, lot 53). His passion for his subject is unmistakably evident in this group of drawings, each of which delicately traces Adele's graceful figure and elegant fineries in a uniquely enchanting perspective.

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