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Lot 53

Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
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2 March 2017, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

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black chalk on buff paper
45.4 x 31.6cm (17 7/8 x 12 7/16in).
Executed circa 1897 - 1898

Footnotes

The present work is a study for the oil portrait of Sonja Knips, painted by the artist and currently housed in the collection of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

Provenance
M. Strake Collection, Düsseldorf.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 March 1996, lot 229.
Private collection, Milan (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
Salzburg, Galerie Welz, Gustav Klimt, 5 August - 13 September 1964, no. 15 (titled 'Porträtstudie Sonja Knips').

Literature
A. Strobl, Gustav Klimt, Die Zeichnungen 1878 - 1903, Vol. I, Salzburg, 1980, no. 409, p. 132 (illustrated p. 133).

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