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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Gustav Klimt supplement to the catalogue raisonné of the drawings currently being prepared by Dr Marian Bisanz-Prakken.
The present drawing is related to the series of preparatory drawings (Strobl nos. 2113-2121) for the painting Bildnis Mäda Primavesi, 1913 (Novotny-Dobai no. 179; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, fig. 1). The sitter, Mäda Primavesi, was the daughter of Otto and Eugenia Primavesi, who were important patrons of the Wiener Werkstätte.
(fig. 1) Gustav Klimt, Bildnis Mäda Primavesi, 1913, oil on canvas, 150 x 101.5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; © Gift of André and Clara Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964 (64.148), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The present drawing is related to the series of preparatory drawings (Strobl nos. 2113-2121) for the painting Bildnis Mäda Primavesi, 1913 (Novotny-Dobai no. 179; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, fig. 1). The sitter, Mäda Primavesi, was the daughter of Otto and Eugenia Primavesi, who were important patrons of the Wiener Werkstätte.
(fig. 1) Gustav Klimt, Bildnis Mäda Primavesi, 1913, oil on canvas, 150 x 101.5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; © Gift of André and Clara Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964 (64.148), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.