Lot Essay
Drawn in preparation for the figure of the Old Year, seated to the right of Klimt's calendar illustration for the month of January, published in Ver Sacrum in 1901.
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Seated woman holding her head in her hands
Details
Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten 1862-1918 Vienna)
Seated woman holding her head in her hands
black chalk on light brown paper
17¾ x 12¼ in. (453 x 309 mm.)
Seated woman holding her head in her hands
black chalk on light brown paper
17¾ x 12¼ in. (453 x 309 mm.)
Provenance
The artist's studio stamp (L. 1575).
with Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich.
with H. Shickman, New York.
with Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich.
with H. Shickman, New York.
Literature
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, die Zeichnungen 1878-1903, Salzburg, 1980, I, no. 730.
Further details
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